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Posted 6/15/2004

> Bid to Move S.C. Nuclear Waste Fails
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 3, 2004)

After heated debate, the U.S. Senate on Thursday narrowly blocked a move to require that millions of gallons of highly radioactive sludge be transferred from South Carolina to a safer permanent site in Nevada, as provided by a 1982 law.


Posted 6/3/2004

> Perdue Transportation Plan Focuses on Cobb I-75 Corridor
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 15, 2004)

Gov. Sonny Perdue's "Fast Forward" transportation plan will one day significantly change driving patterns for the millions of people who travel the I-75 corridor through metro Atlanta, especially in the aggravating stretch through Cobb County.


> Area's Air is Better: But That's Not all Good
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 13, 2004)

For the first time since federal regulators began rating the country's smoggiest regions 13 years ago, metro Atlanta's air quality will show improvement when a new list is released Thursday.


> Bartow Treads on Peoples' Rights
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 13, 2004)

Bartow County residents asked a legitimate question of their public officials: Why were county fathers plopping a factory in the middle of a rural residential stretch when Bartow had industrial property available elsewhere? In response, they earned only intimidation and threats.


> Atlantic Station Influence Widens
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 3, 2004)

An empty 1950s office building in the shadow of Atlantic Station is set to become a 22-story residential tower by 2007, a signal of what may come to the sleepy industrial district around the Midtown mini-city.


Posted 6/1/2004

> Metro Air Dirtier than We Thought
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 9, 2004)

Environmentalists for years have suspected the estimates used to predict how much pollution spews daily from cars and trucks into metro Atlanta's air were too low. Turns out they were right.


Posted 5/11/2004

> Toxins Pollute Water Near Park
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 27, 2004)

Fulton County acknowledged Monday that toxic chemicals have contaminated groundwater near Providence Park. Wells provide drinking water for the contaminated park near Alpharetta and at least 34 homes within a one-mile radius of it, but it was unclear how many of those wells might be affected.


> Counties Cry Foul Over Annexations
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 25, 2004)

Despite a new state law allowing counties to call for arbitration when there is a dispute, metro Atlanta's fast-growing suburban counties still are powerless to slow snowballing annexations.


Posted 3/22/2004

> State Adds 500,000 People in 3 Years, Census Says
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 9, 2004)

Georgia's population has grown by about half a million people in the past three years, making the state the fourth fastest-growing in the nation behind California, Texas and Florida, the U.S. Census Bureau says.


Posted 3/9/2004

> Budget Drains Landfill Cleanup: Perdue Proposes $9 Million Raid on Hazardous Waste Fund
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 22, 2004)

One in every six Georgians lives within two miles of a leaking landfill that is contaminating the groundwater around it. Yet the governor and state lawmakers attempting to balance the state's teetering budget are redirecting $9 million collected specifically to clean up such toxic messes.


Posted 2/6/2004

> Fast Transit Key to Luring Drivers
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 3, 2004)

Make transit fast, easy and inexpensive and as many as two-thirds of Atlanta's commuters would consider getting out of their personal cars -- at least some of the time.


Posted 1/26/2004

> GRTA Board Shelves Bus Transit Plan
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 15, 2004)

The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority board put the brakes on a proposal Wednesday to use rubber-tired buses designed to ride like trains in high-occupancy vehicle lanes on I-75 north of Atlanta.


Posted 2/6/2004

> The Ice Age Cometh
(AlterNet, February 1, 2004)
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Research shows that a new ice age is not as unlikely as previously thought. Even worse, there could be as little as two to three years' warning.


Posted 12/9/2003

> Black Neighbors Know U.S. Still Ignores Environmental Justice
(Pacific News Service, October 23, 2003)
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Editor's Note: For residents of a smoggy black neighborhood in a small Georgia city, federal agencies' failure to address environmental racism -- documented in a scathing new government report -- is felt each time they take a breath.


Posted 11/3/2003

> How Faith Communities Are Helping to Save the Planet
Part 4: God is Green: The New Civil Rights?
By Oliver D. Ferrari

(Faith And The City E-Letter, November 3, 2003)

Ask those at the intersection of faith and ecology if their movement is poised to be the "next civil rights movement," and most will begin nodding affirmatively before you can finish the question. Recall the words printed boldly across Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s door: "To Redeem the Soul of America." Environmentalists of faith believe that finding communion with the natural world is an integral step in that journey.


Posted 10/8/2003

> How Faith Communities Are Helping to Save the Planet
Part 3: Places of Worship Become Examples of Stewardship
By Oliver D. Ferrari

(Faith And The City E-Letter, October 8, 2003)

Speak to Rev. Steve Brown and you'll quickly learn he's pragmatic, thoughtful, and well informed. That's why his statements about the environment are particularly stirring. After citing a few facts he says, "If we don't do something about [the environment], nature or natural selection will--and people will die off." He leans forward in his chair. "Or we must exercise spiritual, moral, and political leadership to plan a way for environmental justice and all that involves."


Posted 9/9/2003

> How Faith Communities Are Helping to Save the Planet
Part 2: God Is Green: Finding Environmental Values in Religious Tradition
By Oliver D. Ferrari

(Faith And The City E-Letter, September 9, 2003)

Daron Joffe gingerly removed a pair of bowing sunflowers from a vase, wraps them in green tissue paper and hands them to a mother of two. He explained to her teenage son where the edible seeds will come from.


Posted 8/6/2003

> Group: Army Will Delay Burning Chemical Weapons
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(CNN.com, August 5, 2003)

The U.S. Army has agreed to delay for two days the burning of hundreds of Cold War-era chemical weapons in northern Alabama, a spokesman for an environmental group opposed to the effort said Tuesday.


Posted 8/5/2003

> How Faith Communities Are Helping to Save the Planet
Part 1: God Is Green: Finding Environmental Values in Religious Tradition
By Oliver D. Ferrari

(Faith And The City E-Letter, August 5, 2003)

In 1999, Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions concluded a series of conferences that provided theologians with the opportunity to research and present their own religions' teachings about ecology. The results may be summarized in one statement: Practitioners of all major religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i, Buddhism, and others, have a moral obligation to protect the earth.


Posted 7/23/2003

> Preliminary Water Pact Is Signed
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 23, 2003)

Three states reach their first accord as the governors of Georgia, Florida and Alabama signed a preliminary agreement Tuesday spelling out how they will share waters of the Chattahoochee and two other rivers flowing across their borders.


Posted 7/3/2003

> A Declaration of Energy Independence
(AlterNet, July 1, 2003)
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Meet the Apollo Alliance and the Energy Future Coalition -- two new clean-energy coalitions that talk up national security and the economy.

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