GreenLaw

Clean Air

GreenLaw is challenging a coal-fired power plant that will emit 9 million tons of Carbon Dioxide - the same emissions as 1.5 million cars driving 12,000 miles each year.

Clean Water

GreenLaw prevented almost one ton of plastic from being dumped into the Oconee River each year by a newsprint recycling company in Dublin.

Environmental Justice

GreenLaw’s actions stopped a grain mill from emitting illegal and dangerous particles that covered a disadvantaged African-American community for decades.

 
Dynegy/Longleaf Hearing Date Set: Tuesday, June 3, 9:30 a.m.
Please watch our website for further developments. We encourage you to sign up for our e-alerts so that you will receive additional news of this trial. Once the appeal is heard the judge has 30 days to issue a ruling.
Fulton County Superior Court Announces Judge for Dynegy Hearing
GreenLaw attorneys, representing Friends of the Chattahoochee and the Sierra Club, will be in court Tuesday, June 3, at 9:30 a.m., to present the case against the air pollution permit that the Environmental Protecton Division granted to Dynegy for their Longleaf coal-fired power plant in Early County. Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore will hear the case.
We encourage members of the public to attend the hearing. The Court is located in the Fulton County Justice Center Tower at 185 Central Avenue, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30303. It is in the black-glass building on the corner of Central Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive.
Groups Challenge New Proposed Power Plant near Macon
February 22, 2008 - Today GreenLaw attorneys, acting on behalf of over a dozen citizen groups, raised serious questions about a newly proposed 854-megawatt coal-fired power plant to be built in Sandersville, 60 miles east of Macon. GreenLaw’s comments on the application from Power4Georgians, LLC for permission to pollute the air are being submitted to the state Environmental Protection Division (EPD) at a time when citizens in every state across the nation are questioning the safety and efficiency of generating electric energy from burning pulverized coal.

Early County Longleaf Coal-Fired Power Plant - Facts and Timeline
Learn more about the case and the irreversible negative impact that the coal-fired Power plant in Early county will have on Georgia's air quality. According to statements made by the energy company, electricity generated from this plant may not even be sold to the residents and businesses of Georgia.