About a year ago, opponents determined to stop an Alabama company from mining next to Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp were running out of options. Georgia environmental regulators released draft permits in ...
CHARLTON COUNTY, Ga. — Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp is considered one of the world’s most unique environments. A mining company from Alabama, Twin Pines Minerals, LLC, is lobbying to mine for titanium ...
The Okefenokee Swamp in South Georgia is larger than all of New York City. Parts of it are a national wildlife refuge. Now, the state of Georgia is on the cusp of permitting a controversial mine right ...
Drawing roughly 800,000 visitors each year, the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last intact blackwater swamps in North America and is home to hundreds of plant and animal species, ...
After six years, a controversial bid to mine next door to Georgia’s famed Okefenokee Swamp is no more. The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit specializing in acquiring at-risk lands, announced Friday it ...
About half the land will soon belong to the state of Georgia, which plans to turn it into a new wildlife management area open ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A company’s plan to mine minerals near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge neared final approval Friday as Georgia regulators released ...