A 'solar barn raising,' mixed messages in Georgia, and rising groundwater
Welcome back to The Planet You Save, a weekly newsletter on local climate action. I'm Taylor Kate Brown and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. The days are getting a little longer from here on out.
This week and next, I'll be sharing some good reading around the web on local climate stories. If this is your first newsletter, check out the archive to see what our regularly scheduled editions look like. This newsletter only grows through word of mouth, so thank you to everyone who shares it.
Rivian will bring more EV jobs to Georgia, but the state lags on climate policy.
From earlier this year: It's a "solar barn raising" in Virginia.
One of the most dangerous chemical plants in America sits in one of West Virginia’s only majority-Black communities. How did this town become a "sacrifice zone"?
Revealed: the Florida power company writing its own state legislation to slow rooftop solar.
Salt Lake City to require all new city-funded buildings to be more "climate-friendly," in an attempt to make their buildings emissions free by 2023.
Not in the immediate way of rising seas? Coastal groundwater flooding may still wreak havoc.