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Southern Company, the parent of Georgia Power, knew about the link between emissions and climate change decades ago but still spent tens of millions of dollars on climate misinformation. That’s according to a new report by the Energy and Policy Institute, a watchdog group looking at the fossil fuel and utility industries.
The report found that top Southern Company officials were privy to early warnings about climate change as far back as the 1960s. The company and its subsidiaries, including Georgia Power, contributed to research into the link between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change in the 1970s and 80s.
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