The lawsuits centered around Plant Scherer, a massive power station in Juliette, about 20 miles northwest of Macon, which has burned coal to generate electricity since the early 1980s. Burning ...

Plant Scherer in Juliette is one of the plants where Georgia Power plans to leave coal ash waste in unlined pits, where it sits in groundwater. Photo contributed by Altamaha Riverkeeper A ...

When coal is burned at Georgia Power’s Plant Scherer, the remaining toxic ash is sunk into the body of water in the foreground. An underground stream flows through that ash at depths of up to ...