Gautama Mehta reports on climate change, energy, and the environment for Grist, a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to highlighting climate solutions and uncovering environmental injustices. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Mehta also reported for The Telegraph in Macon and TheSun Herald in Mississippi.
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.
Smoke from a record-setting season of Canadian wildfires has floated across the United States all summer, and last week, Georgia experienced the consequences.
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.
Under pressure from the federal government, Georgia is rewriting a rule governing industrial air pollution limits to end a loophole that currently exposes communities near coal plants and other facilities to harmful pollutants.