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GreenLaw is working to protect long leaf pine tracts, as well as habitat for the endangered indigo blue snake and gopher tortoise.
The proposed Sabal Trail pipeline would carry natural gas from Alabama to Florida - with 196 miles of that cutting through Southwest Georgia. On April 21, 2014, GreenLaw filed scoping comments with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on behalf of environmental groups arguing that the proposed pipeline route gives little consideration for private property rights, fragments critical forest and wet lands, and creates a risk of pipeline rupture and catastrophic explosion. To read the scoping comments, Click Here
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GA PSC Approves Wind Energy Contracts
 On May 20, members of the Public Service Commission (PSC) voted unanimously to approve contracts to bring clean, affordable wind power to Georgia Power customers. Starting in 2016, the two contracts will import 250 megawatts of wind power from Oklahoma, enough to power more than 50,000 Georgia homes. GreenLaw, on behalf of the Sierra Club, intervened in the proceeding where Georgia Power asked the PSC for approval of these contracts. Read More
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GreenLaw is happy to announce our Environmental Heroes honorees for 2014: Galloway & Lyndall, LLC - Ogden Doremus Award for excellence in environmental law, April Ingle - Environmental Hero, and Tally Sweat - Lifetime Achievement. We hope you will join us on 
In a case brought by GreenLaw on behalf of the Sierra Club, the U.S. EPA ruled on April 24, 2014 that Georgia had not followed Clean Air Act guidelines, specifically regarding coal dust monitoring and hazardous air emissions at 5 coal-fired plants. "This is just another example of how using coal to produce electricity is bad for human health and the environment," said , 
