Environment

The Cobb County medical sterilization plant Sterigenics filed a restraining order against Cobb County Wednesday as the plant resumes operations to clean medical equipment needed for medical workers fighting the coronavirus.

A mining company seeking to dig for minerals near the vast wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp has reworked its plan to substantially shrink the mine’s initial footprint in an environmentally sensitive area near the Georgia-Florida line.

Officials in a central Georgia county say they will pay to test water wells for coal ash contamination.

A Georgia Senator just introduced a bill to ban both styrofoam containers and plastic bags in stores and restaurants.

Officials for a salvage company suing to halt demolition of an overturned cargo ship on the Georgia coast appeared to back away Tuesday from claims that sawing the vessel into enormous chunks would cause an “environmental catastrophe.”

Georgia senators voted Monday to let people build homes that could be flooded by dams without raising safety standards for the upstream dam.

Officials say heavy rains are to blame for more than 9.2 million gallons leaking from a DeKalb County sewage line last week.

Georgia senators are passing a measure that would increase the fee for dumping coal ash in the state.

Health officials say students at a Georgia university have been warned after a rabid bat was found on campus.

A federal judge on Friday ordered attorneys for the U.S. Coast Guard and a maritime salvage company to answer detailed questions about plans to remove an overturned cargo ship on the Georgia coast by sawing it into eight enormous chunks.