Georgia Trend Daily – June 10, 2025

June 10,  2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Kala Hunter reports, over the past 18 years, coal power in Georgia has seen a precipitous decline. Between 2007 and 2013, coal power generation was cut in half, dropping from 66% of the Georgia Power energy mix to 32%.

June 10,  2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!

Christy Simo reports, shortyly after Gov. Brian Kemp announced he will not run for the U.S. Senate in 2026, U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter (District 1) announced he will enter the race. Insurance Commissioner John King was the second Republican to enter the race, a few days later.

June 10,  2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Allison Mawn reports that among the hundreds who graduated Monday from Goodwill of North Georgia’s job training and career development programs are people who “represent every category of hardship,” said the organization’s CEO, Keith Parker. The 781 graduates at the ceremony held at the Georgia Aquarium make up the largest-ever class for Goodwill of North Georgia, which was founded 100 years ago this month.

June 10,  2025 Capitol Beat News

Dave Williams reports that the Alabama-based company planning to open a titanium mine adjacent to the Okefenokee Swamp has not submitted $2.1 million in financial assurances required to get a permit from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD). Georgia law requires applicants for surface mining permits to submit such assurances to the state to ensure they will have the financial wherewithal to complete site reclamation once they finish mining activities.

June 10, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com

Trevor Williams reports that Gov. Brian Kemp this week is visiting an annual conclave of Southern states and Canadian provinces, reinforcing Georgia’s ties with its top customer as the neighboring nations spar over tariffs. The annual SEUS/CP alliance conference June 8-10 in New Brunswick comes less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump doubled his steel and aluminum tariffs to 50 percent, prompting Canada to telegraph further retaliation against its top trading partner and ally.  

June 10, 2025 Augusta Chronicle

Joe Hotchkiss reports that the Augusta-based manufacturer of one of the world’s most popular brands of golf carts has a new leader. Club Car announced that Craig Scanlon is the company’s new president and chief executive officer, effective June 9.

June 10, 2025 Albany Herald

Lucille Lannigan reports, the lush, green rows that make up expansive peanut fields are a familiar site for southwest Georgians, making up roughly 800,000 acres across the state. In much smaller fields, the rows are zigzagged with weeds and jagged mismatched crop heights.

June 10,  2025 Macon Telegraph

Margaret Walker reports, this new high-tech greenhouse in Macon grows lettuce without human hands ever touching it – and without the use of pesticides or GMOs, either. BrightFarms, a Cox Enterprises company and a national leader in indoor farming, has opened its new 8-acre greenhouse in Macon that is bringing in new agriculture jobs.

June 10, 2025 The Brunswick News

Michael Hall reports that the federal government is considering opening Georgia’s coast to oil drilling again despite a 10-year moratorium placed on it during President Donald Trump’s first administration and former President Joe Biden blocking drilling earlier this year. A local environmental group is joining others from around the country voicing its opposition to the proposal and hopes Golden Isles residents will do the same.

June 10, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal

Isabelle Manders reports, this Wednesday, Marietta City Council will consider approval of its $428 million budget for fiscal year 2026, which includes a flat millage rate, employee raises and no service cuts. Last month, the council’s Finance and Investments Committee, made up of Carlyle Kent, Joseph Goldstein and Cheryl Richardson, unanimously voted to advance the budget for discussion to Monday’s work session, following a June 3 public hearing.

June 10, 2025 The Current

Jabari Gibbs reports that Saebra Grannis was working on earning her high school diploma at the Brunswick Job Corps until the federal government abruptly decided to close the job training program that is helping more than 200 young adults in Coastal Georgia. On May 29, the head of the Brunswick center received notice to cease all activities and remove all students from housing provided by the organization by June 6.

June 10, 2025 WABE

Will Stone repors that Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is removing all 17 members of a key advisory committee that helps craft vaccine policy and recommendations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kennedy made the announcement on Monday afternoon in a press release from the Department of Health and Human Services and an opinion piece published by The Wall Street Journal.

June 10, 2025 Georgia Recorder

Stanley Dunlap reports that three elected state regulators are being asked to recuse themselves from voting on a proposed agreement to freeze Georgia Power’s rates over allegations that they violated state rules by publicly endorsing the proposal before an upcoming hearing. Advocacy groups filed a complaint Friday accusing Georgia Public Service Commission Chairman Jason Shaw, Commissioner Lauren “Bubba” McDonald and Commissioner Tim Echols of showing bias by supporting a proposal between commission staff and Georgia Power that would freeze the base electric rates from 2026 to 2028.

June 10, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, as the Trump administration sends troops into Los Angeles over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is using the standoff to sharpen his case for governor — and draw a contrast with national Democrats. At a campaign fundraiser in Atlanta last night, Carr blamed Newsom, a favorite GOP target, for the unrest surrounding immigration protests and warned donors that similar leadership in Georgia would be a disaster.