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.
Georgia Power’s plans for disposing of toxic industrial waste at a handful of coal plants across the state have been the subject of a yearslong controversy.
The newly formed union at electric school bus maker Blue Bird’s plant in Fort Valley held its first bargaining session with management on July 6, two months after workers voted to unionize with the United Steelworkers.
Smoke from a record-setting season of Canadian wildfires has floated across the United States all summer, and last week, Georgia experienced the consequences.
Middle Georgia’s peach growers, who have been devastated by a harvest ruined by bad weather, have little in the way of financial recourse to offset their losses.
