The state Environmental Protection Division will hold a public hearing Tuesday on a permit application for a proposed biomass plant near Lithonia.
Green Energy Partners must secure a state air permit 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.
The public hearing begins at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Lou Walker Senior Center, 2538 Panola Road, near Lithonia.
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