Emily G. Garcia
Journalist
Emily Garcia is an investigative journalist covering the University of Georgia and Athens.
Passionate about facilitating an informed democracy and protecting the rights of professional, student and citizen journalists. Not passionate about the Oxford comma.
Selected Works:
Wolf of Broad Street: UGA community discusses squeeze on Wall Street short sellers
The tale of Robin Hood, a tights-wearing crusader whose credo was, “Steal from the rich and give to the poor,” dates back to the 15th century. Today, Robin Hood is more than a man, and his mantra is a movement. Wealthy investors intended to make a profit by short selling GameStop’s stock, but they did…
North Georgia farm fined $85K for wastewater spill, fish kill
A farm in Wilkes County, southeast of Athens, was fined $85,000 this month by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) for a leak that polluted state waters with ammonia, which killed an estimated 1,700 fish. A pond on the property of McAvoy Farms, also known as Mar-Leta Farms, leaked wastewater into a tributary of Little…
Report: Right whale nearly extinct from vessel strikes, entanglement
For years, marine mammal conservationists have known the North Atlantic right whale population was in decline because of vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear. Now, newly released population estimates show the already-endangered species is on the brink of extinction. The North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium (NARWC) has released new data showing that this species…
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