The federally funded trial will be open to adults in Calhoun and Rome. 

On the September 15 edition: The Effingham County Commission delayed the site review where the new OpenA-I data center is supposed to be built; Today is national voter registration day; And some here in Georgia say the rollback of EPA regulations is a green light for unchecked pollution.

The Trump administration is eliminating limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants. Environmental groups say this will impact the climate and public health.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to remove public notice and public comments for state-level air quality permits, a significant change to the 1973 Clean Air Act. The change — which could occur in a few weeks — would take away a common form of public awareness for a new data center and public participation, speeding up the review process.

An awarded $15 million over five years will fund the state's first Superfund Research Center. 

There is public concern about health risks from the chemicals, especially from the Make America Healthy Again movement. The agency's move doesn't in itself guarantee regulation.

At a luncheon talk to the Golden Isles Republican Women’s group on Thursday, Public Service Commissioner Tricia Pridemore cheered on the Trump administration’s deregulation efforts and discussed what she sees as young women’s unnecessary anxiety about climate change.

The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

The EPA enforced a record low number of environmental laws and regulations during the first year of President Trump's second term in office.

The Trump administration tried to end or privatize the government Energy Star efficiency program. But now Trump has signed a budget bill that fully funds the program and leaves it even stronger.

The EPA won't consider the economic costs of harms to human health, at least for now. Legal and health experts are concerned that the change could make it easier for the agency to roll back rules.

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

Workers at the drinking water plant in Louisville, Ky. saw a sudden spike in the level of a 'forever chemical.' They traced it up the Ohio River to a factory embroiled in a pollution lawsuit. 

When a massive chemical fire broke out at the BioLab plant in Conyers in September 2024, the EPA had a tool: a plane, capable of mapping the toxic plume in real time. But it never left the ground.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.