On Monday night the chief executive of Westwin Elements told a packed town hall that she was committed to transparency about her company’s plans to build a nickel refinery near The Highlands residential community in Richmond Hill. 

State officials and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport are facing criticism for a lack of information following a Friday jet fuel spill that contaminated the Flint River, which provides drinking water to 400,000 people south of Atlanta and in central Georgia.

Recent approved testing methods were unable to detect some of the most dangerous byproducts of the chemicals stored at BioLab, leaving nearby businesses and residents without clear answers about what they were exposed to.

A state scientist warned about hexavalent chromium, but testing by an outside contractor didn’t look for it.

The state is lifting a moratorium on drilling new irrigation wells in parts of Southwest Georgia that has been in effect for more than a decade.

Georgia environmental regulators have revoked a permit for a wood pellet manufacturing plant in Telfair County following a legal challenge opposing the project.

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division on Monday issued final water withdrawal permits to Bulloch and Bryan counties to withdraw a total of 6.65 million gallons of water a day from four wells in the Floridan aquifer in Bulloch County.

Several Georgia environmental organizations are pressing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  to enforce national standards that would prevent Georgia Power from disposing of coal ash waste in a way that pollutes groundwater.

Gov. Brian Kemp and Marty Kemp are leading a trade mission to the Republic of Korea.