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A bill to ban mining near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is still stalled in a state house committee after receiving a long-awaited hearing Tuesday. The bill was prompted by a proposal by Twin Pines Minerals to mine for titanium and other minerals near the refuge.
House Bill 71, the Okefenokee Protection Act, has attracted more than 90 sponsors from both sides of the aisle since January. But lawmakers just held their first hearing on the measure in the House Natural Resources and Environment’s Resource Management Subcommittee, a week after the deadline for bills to pass one chamber if they’re going to succeed this year.
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