JJoe Cook and April Ingle accept an award at the Environmental Education Alliance conference for Outstanding Service to Environmental Education by an Organization
On behalf of Georgia River Network and American Rivers, the Southern Environmental Law Center has challenged in federal court the flawed basis for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decision to permit a $17 million, 960-acre recreational fishing lake in Grady County, Georgia near the Florida state line.
The lawsuit, filed earlier this month, focuses on a flawed study underlying the permit that overestimates the number of people who would use the lake. The challenge also asserts that the project would destroy over nine miles of streams and could destroy up to 518 acres of valuable wetlands -- significantly more than the 129 acres of wetlands estimated by the Corps. Click here to read the whole story.
And for a little inspiration, hear Jimmy Carter talking about his fight against building new reservoirs in Georgia back when he was Governor:
