For Immediate Release, February 8, 2021
Contact:
Jaclyn Lopez, Center for Biological Diversity, (727) 490-9190, jlopez@biologicaldiversity.org
Jennifer Crosslin, The Cherokee Concerned Citizens, (228) 365-1447, citizensbuyout@gmail.com
Matt Rota, Healthy Gulf, (504) 377-7840, matt@healthygulf.org
Glenn Compton, ManaSota-88, (941) 966-6256, manasota88@comcast.net
Michael Roth, Our Santa Fe River, (352) 316-4705, michael.roth@oursantaferiver.org Sharon Levigne, RISE St. James, (225) 206-0900, sharonlavigne@gmail.com
Justin Bloom, Tampa Bay Waterkeeper, bloomesq1@gmail.com
Darryl Malek-Wiley, Sierra Club Delta Chapter, (504) 427-1885,darryl.malek-wiley@sierraclub.org
Maia Raposo, Waterkeeper Alliance, (917) 740-6545, mraposo@waterkeeper.org
EPA Petitioned to Protect Communities, Environment From Radioactive Phosphogypsum Stacks, Wastewater
WASHINGTON Conservation and public-health groups petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency today to i
HAHIRA â Environmental groups, including the Suwannee Riverkeeper and the WWALS Watershed Coalition, have sent a letter to Gov. Brian Kemp asking him to stop the proposed titanium strip mine from being allowed within a few miles of the Okefenokee Swamp in south Georgia and north Florida.
The letter, which lays out evidence to support the groupsâ request, states: âGeorgia is all that stands between a titanium strip mine within a few miles of the Okefenokee Swamp, proposed by coal miners from Alabama. Please direct the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to thoroughly examine the five state permit applications from Twin Pines Minerals. The evidence indicates DNR should reject those applications. At the least, an environmental review equivalent to an Environmental Impact Statement should be conducted.â