Georgia Trend Daily – June 10, 2025
June 10, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
1,700 people urge regulators to prevent powering Georgia data centers with coal
Kala Hunter reports, over the past 18 years, coal power in Georgia has seen a precipitous decline. Between 2007 and 2013, coal power generation was cut in half, dropping from 66% of the Georgia Power energy mix to 32%.
June 10, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Ups, Downs and In-betweens
Christy Simo reports, shortyly after Gov. Brian Kemp announced he will not run for the U.S. Senate in 2026, U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter (District 1) announced he will enter the race. Insurance Commissioner John King was the second Republican to enter the race, a few days later.
June 10, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hundreds graduate from Goodwill of North Georgia’s job training programs
Allison Mawn reports that among the hundreds who graduated Monday from Goodwill of North Georgia’s job training and career development programs are people who “represent every category of hardship,” said the organization’s CEO, Keith Parker. The 781 graduates at the ceremony held at the Georgia Aquarium make up the largest-ever class for Goodwill of North Georgia, which was founded 100 years ago this month.
June 10, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Mining project near Okefenokee on hold as applicant struggles financially
Dave Williams reports that the Alabama-based company planning to open a titanium mine adjacent to the Okefenokee Swamp has not submitted $2.1 million in financial assurances required to get a permit from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD). Georgia law requires applicants for surface mining permits to submit such assurances to the state to ensure they will have the financial wherewithal to complete site reclamation once they finish mining activities.
June 10, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com
On Kemp’s Canada Trip, Trade Is Topical but Investment Is In Focus
Trevor Williams reports that Gov. Brian Kemp this week is visiting an annual conclave of Southern states and Canadian provinces, reinforcing Georgia’s ties with its top customer as the neighboring nations spar over tariffs. The annual SEUS/CP alliance conference June 8-10 in New Brunswick comes less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump doubled his steel and aluminum tariffs to 50 percent, prompting Canada to telegraph further retaliation against its top trading partner and ally.
June 10, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
Joining the Club: Augusta golf cart manufacturer taps an industry veteran as its new CEO
Joe Hotchkiss reports that the Augusta-based manufacturer of one of the world’s most popular brands of golf carts has a new leader. Club Car announced that Craig Scanlon is the company’s new president and chief executive officer, effective June 9.
June 10, 2025 Albany Herald
Southwest Georgia farmer leads the way in Georgia organic peanut venture
Lucille Lannigan reports, the lush, green rows that make up expansive peanut fields are a familiar site for southwest Georgians, making up roughly 800,000 acres across the state. In much smaller fields, the rows are zigzagged with weeds and jagged mismatched crop heights.
June 10, 2025 Macon Telegraph
This Macon greenhouse’s approach to farming ‘pays off in your fridge.’ See it.
Margaret Walker reports, this new high-tech greenhouse in Macon grows lettuce without human hands ever touching it – and without the use of pesticides or GMOs, either. BrightFarms, a Cox Enterprises company and a national leader in indoor farming, has opened its new 8-acre greenhouse in Macon that is bringing in new agriculture jobs.
June 10, 2025 The Brunswick News
Local group opposes proposal to allow drilling off Georgia’s coast
Michael Hall reports that the federal government is considering opening Georgia’s coast to oil drilling again despite a 10-year moratorium placed on it during President Donald Trump’s first administration and former President Joe Biden blocking drilling earlier this year. A local environmental group is joining others from around the country voicing its opposition to the proposal and hopes Golden Isles residents will do the same.
June 10, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Marietta’s Budget Proposal Includes Flat Millage Rate, Raises, No Service Cuts
Isabelle Manders reports, this Wednesday, Marietta City Council will consider approval of its $428 million budget for fiscal year 2026, which includes a flat millage rate, employee raises and no service cuts. Last month, the council’s Finance and Investments Committee, made up of Carlyle Kent, Joseph Goldstein and Cheryl Richardson, unanimously voted to advance the budget for discussion to Monday’s work session, following a June 3 public hearing.
June 10, 2025 The Current
Brunswick Job Corps shutdown looms, leaving students without homes
Jabari Gibbs reports that Saebra Grannis was working on earning her high school diploma at the Brunswick Job Corps until the federal government abruptly decided to close the job training program that is helping more than 200 young adults in Coastal Georgia. On May 29, the head of the Brunswick center received notice to cease all activities and remove all students from housing provided by the organization by June 6.
June 10, 2025 WABE
RFK Jr. boots all members of Atlanta-based CDC’s vaccine advisory committee
Will Stone repors that Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is removing all 17 members of a key advisory committee that helps craft vaccine policy and recommendations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kennedy made the announcement on Monday afternoon in a press release from the Department of Health and Human Services and an opinion piece published by The Wall Street Journal.
June 10, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Advocacy groups say utility regulators who praised rate freeze before hearing violated state rules
Stanley Dunlap reports that three elected state regulators are being asked to recuse themselves from voting on a proposed agreement to freeze Georgia Power’s rates over allegations that they violated state rules by publicly endorsing the proposal before an upcoming hearing. Advocacy groups filed a complaint Friday accusing Georgia Public Service Commission Chairman Jason Shaw, Commissioner Lauren “Bubba” McDonald and Commissioner Tim Echols of showing bias by supporting a proposal between commission staff and Georgia Power that would freeze the base electric rates from 2026 to 2028.
June 10, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Chris Carr looks to California for his pitch to be Georgia’s next governor
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, as the Trump administration sends troops into Los Angeles over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is using the standoff to sharpen his case for governor — and draw a contrast with national Democrats. At a campaign fundraiser in Atlanta last night, Carr blamed Newsom, a favorite GOP target, for the unrest surrounding immigration protests and warned donors that similar leadership in Georgia would be a disaster.
