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Units 3, left, and 4 and their cooling towers stand at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant, Jan. 20, 2023, in Waynesboro, Ga. Georgia's Public Service Commission voted 5-0 on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023 to approve a 6% rate increase for remaining costs that will take effect once Unit 4 begins commercial operation. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

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Regulators approve deal to pay for Georgia Power's new nuclear reactors

By JEFF AMY JEFF AMY - Associated Press
Tue,12/19/23-11:58AM, 247 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — Almost 15 years of wrangling over who should pay for two new nuclear reactors in Georgia and who should be accountable for cost overruns came down to one vote Tuesday, with the Georgia Public Service Commission
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Commissioner RaToya Gilmer McGee, left, shows a ballot styles report to Amir Badat, an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, during a meeting between the Hinds County Election Commission and a coalition of national and local civil rights organizations, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, in Jackson, Miss. The commissioners said ballot shortages, technical mishaps and insufficient training were some of the factors that hampered voting in Mississippi's largest county during the Nov. 7 general election. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Mississippi local officials say human error and poor training led to election-day chaos

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Mon,12/18/23-7:00PM, 88 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The county election officials under whose watch ballot shortages hampered voting in Mississippi’s largest county said technical mishaps and insufficient training were to blame for election day chaos in November.
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A sleeping woman was killed by a bullet fired outside her Mississippi apartment, police say

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mon,12/18/23-3:06PM, 57 Reads
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A woman sleeping in her bed was killed by a bullet fired during a shootout outside her apartment building in coastal Mississippi, according to police.
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The Fifth Ward Elementary School and residential neighborhoods sit near the Denka Performance Elastomer Plant, back, in Reserve, La., Sept. 23, 2022. The EPA sued Denka Performance Elastomer LLC, arguing that its petrochemical operations in southern Louisiana posed an unacceptable cancer risk to the mostly-Black community nearby. The EPA has demanded that the company reduce toxic emissions from its plant that makes synthetic rubber. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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After years of decline, the Biden administration says environmental enforcement is on the upswing

By MATTHEW DALY AND MICHAEL PHILLIS MATTHEW DALY AND MICHAEL PHILLIS - Associated Press
Mon,12/18/23-1:49PM, 99 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency conducted more on-site inspections of polluting industrial sites this year than any time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency said Monday as it seeks to
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Regulators approve deal to pay for Georgia Power's new nuclear reactors

Mississippi local officials say human error and poor training led to election-day chaos

A sleeping woman was killed by a bullet fired outside her Mississippi apartment, police say

After years of decline, the Biden administration says environmental enforcement is on the upswing

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