Georgia Trend Daily – April 26, 2024
April 26, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Georgia Power plan to leave coal ash in groundwater could be upended by new EPA rule
Stanley Dunlap reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday the final adoption of rules aimed at significantly reducing fossil fuel power plant pollution across the country. Several clean energy nonprofits hailed the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic announcement as a powerful federal law that will reduce health risks associated with toxic metals disposed of in coal ash ponds and landfills, a byproduct of now-shuttered Georgia Power plants.
April 26, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Southern Retro Vibes: Marcus Bar & Grill
Sucheta Rawal reports, driving along Atlanta’s Edgewood Avenue takes you through an interesting section of quirky bars with neon lights and eclectic restaurants offering soul and vegan concepts. It is no surprise that acclaimed international celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson picked this neighborhood for his first restaurant location in Atlanta.
April 26, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Southwest Airlines to reduce Atlanta flights as part of national cuts
Kelly Yamanouchi reports that Southwest Airlines plans to reduce flights to and from Atlanta and pull out of some other airports, as its operations come under pressure from delays in deliveries of Boeing aircraft. Dallas-based Southwest is the second-largest carrier at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, behind Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines.
April 26, 2024 WABE
Georgia’s film industry prepares for further expansion in 2024
Marlon Hyde reports that Georgia’s film industry, with its promising trajectory, is poised to welcome more studios and new productions in the near future. On Tuesday evening, over a hundred Georgia lawmakers, film producers and other creatives filled Eagle Rock Studios in Norcross.The event highlighted Gwinnett County as one of Metro Atlanta’s major film production centers.
April 26, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Delta: Left Unchecked, DOT Decision Threatens Five Atlanta-Mexico Flights
Trevor Williams reports that Delta Air Lines Inc. is warning that 23 U.S-Mexico flights, including five nonstops from Atlanta, would be at risk of closing or seeing reduced service if the U.S. government follows through on a plan to end the airline’s Aeromexico partnership. Delta executives and their allies in Georgia’s economic development community and Congress are pressing the Department of Transportation to reconsider its January decision not to renew antitrust immunity for the joint venture.
April 26, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Head of FEMA praises Savannah canal project
John Deem reports that future work to control persistent flooding in two historic Black West Savannah neighborhoods is a first step toward protecting an area of the city “marginalized by underinvestment” for decades, officials said Tuesday. The $42 million project aims to address perpetual drainage issues along the two-century-old Springfield Canal that too often have left the Carver Village and Cloverdale communities under water, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell said Tuesday during a visit to Savannah.
April 26, 2024 Augusta Chronicle
Has climate change impacted the peanut growing season in Georgia?
Erica Van Buren reports that unpredictable and extreme temperatures associated with climate change can have a negative impact on the peanut growing season in Georgia, say experts. “Georgia is the number one state in the U.S. for growing peanuts,” said Scott Monfort, peanut agronomist with the crop and soil science department at the University of Georgia.
April 26, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Georgia Education Guide
Staff reports, the Georgia Education Guide has answers to your questions about postsecondary education choices available throughout the state. Georgia offers some outstanding options. Learn about them here!
April 26, 2024 GPB
‘Georgia needs you’: Amid doctor shortage, Savannah med school workshop aims to inspire rural teens
Benjamin Payne reports, in rural areas like Bolton’s Screven County — about an hour’s drive north of Savannah — Mercer University School of Medicine is hoping to recruit more students. If the institution’s freshman class last year is any indication, then its outreach efforts appear to be working: 70% of those doctors-in-training hail from outside of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
April 26, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald
Spectrum announces broadband service to rural community
Wayne Ford reports that folks in the southern end of Oconee County gathered for a check presentation recently to formally announce that Oconee County Animal Services now has broadband service. Spectrum is extending its broadband into homes and businesses in the Farmington community this rural community.
April 26, 2024 Valdosta Daily Times
Ossoff helping to establish precision ag lab in Tifton
Staff reports that U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff announced Monday that he’s providing resources to help establish a precision agriculture laboratory at the University of Georgia’s Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture in Tifton. With the funding, UGA plans to rehabilitate an existing facility and construct a test lab, part of their ongoing project to build a lab that could host researchers, scientists, and student groups and support equipment development, testing, and farm demonstrations, Ossoff’s office said in a press release.
April 26, 2024 State Affairs
Kemp signs bills on education, health care, taxes
Jill Jordan Sieder reports that Gov. Brian Kemp signed a slew of bills over the past week or so, including the private school voucher bill long sought by Republicans and a bill that will ease regulations over the construction and expansion of medical facilities in rural areas. His bill-signing events were clustered into themes: education, health care, military members, human trafficking and Georgia’s coastal communities.
April 26, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Incumbents no-shows for Atlanta Press Club debates
Dave Williams reports that no incumbents have agreed to participate in this weekend’s Atlanta Press Club candidate debates ahead of next month’s primaries, which has the organization concerned. Democratic U.S. Reps. Lucy McBath of Marietta and David Scott of Atlanta, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and Georgia Supreme Court Justice Andrew Pinson have either declined to participate or have not confirmed their participation.
April 26, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PG A.M.: Emory campus protests divide state leaders along party lines
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer report that the responses by the state’s top elected officials to the pro-Palestinian protests at Emory on Thursday might as well have been a political litmus test. Senior Republicans labeled the protesters who were removed by state and local police as antisemitic anarchists and accused them of supporting terrorists.
