Georgia Recorder
Report: Close Georgia Power coal plants faster to avert climate crisis
A Southern Alliance for Clean Energy report says that Southern Co., Georgia Power s parent company, and other major Southeast utilities need to ramp up efforts to reduce carbon emissions and transition to cleaner forms of energy. Plant Bowen near Cartersville is one of a few coal-fired plants Georgia Power still operates in the state.
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A new environmental report says that Georgia Power’s parent company and other regional utilities are not doing enough to reduce greenhouse emissions to avoid climate disaster.
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) analysis projects that over the next decade, the Southern Co., which owns Georgia Power, and other major Southeast utilities, will not retire coal-fired power plants at a fast enough pace and replace fossil fuels quickly enough with clean energy.
Report: Close Georgia Power coal plants faster to avert climate crisis
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In “Rules for Radicals,” Saul Alinsky urged community activists to hold the enemy accountable to its own rules. “No organization,” Alinsky wrote, “can live up to the letter of its own book.” Though not fans of Alinsky, two men from rural Illinois are taking a page from his playbook, making local government “live up to the letter of its own book” and exposing corruption and malfeasance in turn.
Kirk Allen and John Kraft started Edgar County Watchdogs, a government-accountability nonprofit, in 2011. By appearance, it is a humble operation – Allen and Kraft are the group’s only employees. Edgar County is smaller than most Illinois townships.