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The Associated Press reports that Atlanta-based Southern Co., parent company of Georgia Power, Alabama Power, God-We-Have-So-Much Power, and other utilities, spent more than $14 million last year on lobbying the U.S. Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Energy Department and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Coming in over the transom: A new “coal-fueled” power plant has been proposed for Washington County. Here are the filthy details.
Gallons of water consumed by average Cobb County household in
October: 6,510
Gallons of water used by Cobb resident Chris G. Carlos in October:
440,000
Swimming pools that much water could fill: 58
Gallons of water power plants Atkinson and McDonough consume daily from the Chattahoochee River: 862 million
Number of power plants located along the Chattahoochee River: 10
New jobs that proposed coal-fired power plant Longleaf could
bring to Early County, Georgia’s sixth poorest county: 100
Gallons of water Longleaf is expected to draw from the Chattahoochee each day, according to the AJC: 20 million
“Drops†of water Longleaf will “normally†draw from the Chattahoochee daily, according to plant project manager: 0
Sources: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The New Republic, Southern
Environmental Law Center, Greenlaw
Of the 15 senators and representatives representing Georgia in Congress, number who are millionaires: 11
Percentage of Americans in 2005 whose net worth exceeded $1 million: 3
Median family income in Georgia in 2005: $53,744
Annual salary of U.S. senators and representatives: $165,000
Amount Rep. John Linder, worth $23.5 million, says he earned in royalties from the book The Fair Tax, co-authored with talk-show host Neal Boortz: $500,000
Approximate tax owed on $500,000 book income: $147,206
Tax Linder would owe on $500,000 book income if his Fair Tax proposal became law: $0
Combined self-reported net worth of Republican senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss: $12.7 million
Cost over five years of children’s health-care funding that Isakson and Chambliss voted against last week: $35 billion
Cost over next decade of extending Bush-proposed tax cuts, a proposal both senators support: $1 trillion
Sources: Macon Telegraph, U.S. Census Bureau, CNN Money.com, the Center for Responsive Politics, Washington Post, MoneyChimp.com, Congressional Budget Office
