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 ...