The local environmental advocacy group GreenLaw is supporting a group of DeKalb County residents in their opposition to a proposed biomass plant near Lithonia.
Green Energy Partners has filed an air permit application with the state for the facility, which calls for burning wood chips to create energy that it will sell to Georgia Power.
Nearby residents and community leaders have opposed the $60 million plant, to be built on Rogers Lake Road, since its proposal two years ago. A lawsuit seeking to overturn the county’s zoning change for the plant is pending.
GreenLaw recently submitted comments supporting the residents’ allegation that the company has underestimated how much pollution the plant will create.
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