Gautama Mehta reports on climate change, energy, and the environment for Grist, a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to highlighting climate solutions and uncovering environmental injustices. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Mehta also reported for The Telegraph in Macon and TheSun Herald in Mississippi.
With the definition resolved, will the EPA come for polluting coal plants? Across America, millions of tons of toxic waste are sitting in pits next to coal plants. But whether they will get cleaned up has come down to a legal debate over the definitions of words.
Few issues are as divisive among American environmentalists as nuclear energy. Concerns about nuclear waste storage and safety, particularly in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor meltdown in Pennsylvania, helped spur the retirement of nuclear power plants across the country. Nuclear energy’s proponents, however, counter that nuclear power has historically been among the safest forms of power generation, and that the consistent carbon-free energy it generates makes it an essential tool in the fight against global warming.
Over the course of an 18-year study that concluded last month, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources measured mercury levels in fish caught in lakes and streams.
In parts of South and Middle Georgia, residents woke up this morning to hazy skies — a result of a renewed blanketing of the Southeast by Canadian wildfire smoke.
