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Gautama Mehta

Gautama Mehta
Reporter, The Telegraph
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Gautama Mehta reports on climate change, energy, and the environment in the Macon area and across Georgia for The Telegraph. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he also reported for The Sun Herald in Mississippi. 

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Feds rejected Alabama’s toxic waste disposal plan. What that means for Georgia’s coal ash

Georgia Power’s plans for disposing of toxic industrial waste at a handful of coal plants across the state have been the subject of a yearslong controversy.

August 25, 2023
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  • Gautama Mehta
Alex Perkins a staff representative with the United Steelworkers speaks to Blue Bird employees during a training session for the bargaining committee in June.

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You’ve voted to unionize. Now what? Blue Bird workers discuss tense contract negotiations

The newly formed union at electric school bus maker Blue Bird’s plant in Fort Valley held its first bargaining session with management on July 6, two months after workers voted to unionize with the United Steelworkers.

August 09, 2023
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  • Gautama Mehta
Pockets of Code Red air quality levels peppered the U.S. and lingered above Macon as smoke from Canadian wildfires continued last week.

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Macon had Georgia’s worst air quality last week, thanks to Canadian wildfires, ‘heat dome’

Smoke from a record-setting season of Canadian wildfires has floated across the United States all summer, and last week, Georgia experienced the consequences.

July 26, 2023
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  • Gautama Mehta
Lee and Robert Dickey with Dickey Farms discuss the 2023 peach crop. Lack of chill hours and a late freeze has caused a substantial loss in the crop.

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Georgia peach farmers pursuing solutions to crop losses caused by climate change

Middle Georgia’s peach growers, who have been devastated by a harvest ruined by bad weather, have little in the way of financial recourse to offset their losses.

July 07, 2023
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  • Gautama Mehta
Lee and Robert Dickey with Dickey Farms discuss the 2023 peach crop. Lack of chill hours and a late freeze has caused a substantial loss in the crop.

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‘A dire situation.’ What caused Georgia’s catastrophic peach crop failure?

This year’s peach crop is Georgia’s worst since the 1990s, peach growers say, with a projected loss of up to 95% of a normal year’s yield.

July 05, 2023
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