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After a swing and a miss last year, a larger coalition of Georgia legislators are looking to pass a bill to protect the Okefenokee Swamp from mining.

Georgia EPD releases Twin Pines draft mining permit, opens public comment period on the proposed mine near the Okefenokee Swamp.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — New zoning changes in Hartford are facilitating a proposal to convert a defunct hotel off Route 5 into affordable housing for people with middle to low income.Twin Pines Housing Trust, an affordable housing nonprofit based in...

New zoning changes in Hartford are facilitating a proposal to convert a defunct hotel off Route 5 into affordable housing for people with middle to low incomes.

A U.S. government agency is being sued over its decision to allow a proposed mine outside the vast Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge to move forward without federal permits. The Southern

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In Georgia, four conversations groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a U.S. agency for its decision to move forward with the Okefenokee mining project without federal permits.

Four conservation groups sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in federal court Tuesday for removing itself from reviewing the environmental impact of a mine planned near the Okefenokee Swamp — placing the permitting for the project back in the hands of state environmental regulators.

A U.S. government agency is being sued over its decision to allow a proposed mine outside the vast Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge to move forward without federal permits.

A U.S. government agency is being sued over its decision to allow a proposed mine outside the vast Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge to move forward without federal permits