![Pictures of Georgia's environment across the state](https://www.gpb.org/sites/default/files/styles/flexheight/public/2024-04/recorder_earth_day.jpeg?itok=gy2PJapC)
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From top to bottom: The Okefenokee Swamp attracts 650,000 visitors annually. (Joe Cook/Georgia River Network); Biomass power plants in Northeast Georgia prompted a 2020 statewide ban on burning railroad ties for electricity. (File); A sewage spill shut down a stretch of the Chattahoochee River in metro Atlanta for July 4, 2023 holiday. (GPB News / File); State regulators approved on April 16 Georgia Power plans to build three gas turbines at Plant Yates. (Grant Blankenship/GPB News)