The Brunswick News - June 12, 2026

While we tend to focus on the negative, governments can also get it right by funding studies that will no doubt be a boon to present and future generations. That happened Wednesday when it was announced that Glynn County would be the site of the first federally funded Superfund Research Center in Georgia.

WSB-TV Atlanta - June 11, 2026

Scientists from multiple Atlanta universities and the University of Georgia received a grant for a Superfund Research Center to study harmful contaminants in an area with a long history of industrial pollution. Emory University, UGA, Georgia Tech, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College and Texas Tech have been awarded the grant by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences. The center will be the first of its kind in Georgia. It will focus on potential remediation to the sensitive coastal ecosystem and potential links between chemical exposure and human health.

Georgia Public Broadcasting - June 11, 2026

Six research institutions, led by Atlanta’s Emory University, will use money from the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences to investigate the depth of exposure on humans and the environment from Superfund sites on Georgia’s coast. An awarded $15 million over five years will fund the state's first Superfund Research Center, for work in Glynn County, home to Brunswick and St. Simon's Island.  

Georgia Public Broadcasting - June 10, 2026

$15 million over five years will fund Georgia's first superfund research center for work in Glynn County, home to Brunswick and St. Simons Island. There, past industrial manufacturing has exposed the people and the environment to so-called forever chemicals, as well as the understudied pesticide toxaphen. The federal grant will fund more testing and research on how that exposure happens, says Emory's Dana Barr, the center's director. 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - June 10, 2026

One of Georgia’s most contaminated counties will soon benefit from a $15 million grant to study the effects of the industrial chemicals that have long plagued the community. A team of roughly 50 researchers led by Emory University will use this funding granted by the National Institutes of Health to investigate the exposure pathways, health effects and cleanup options for two chemicals tied to local industry. 

The Current - June 10, 2026

Associated Press - June 11, 2026 (linked here)

After decades of pollution, Brunswick residents have a new resource for researching the link between area Superfund sites and their health. A five-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health (NIH) has been awarded to Emory University to examine how environmental contaminants affect human health, following a 2023 pilot study involving approximately 100 Glynn County residents, according to the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.

The Brunswick News - June 10, 2026

Glynn County will be the site of the first federally funded Superfund Research Center in Georgia, thanks to a grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health that will fund projects from major state research universities.

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Healthy Coastal Neighborhoods, a coalition of community members and researchers working to foster healthy neighborhoods, announced Wednesday morning that Emory University received $15 million over five years through the institute’s Superfund Research Program to study industrial contamination in the Golden Isles and its impacts on human and environmental health.

Emory University Rollins School of Public Health - June 10, 2026

A coalition of scientists from six universities and community partners has been awarded a National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) grant to establish Georgia’s first Superfund Research Center to study the effects and potential remediation of harmful contaminants in a coastal county with a long history of industrial pollution.

Healthy Coastal Neighborhoods - June 10, 2026

For decades, industrial pollutants were released into the environment of this small coastal Georgia community. Now, through a new 5-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences to Emory University, industrial contamination in Glynn County will be studied by scientists from five of Georgia’s leading research universities. The new research builds on a 2023 study, which found high levels of contaminants in the blood of Glynn County residents. 

WSAV - January 27, 2026

Two Coastal Empire environmental groups and a local woman filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, asking for the court to reverse a ruling made in a Sea Island wetland lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed by Glynn Environmental Coalition, the Center for a Sustainable Coast and Jane Fraser, alleged that Sea Island Acquisition, LLC fraudulently obtained a permit to fill a wetland beside the Inn at Sea Island Company.

January 27, 2026

Glynn Environmental Coalition, the Center for a Sustainable Coast, and Jane Fraser, a local Georgia resident, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to reverse a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that weakens enforcement of the Clean Water Act and threatens wetlands nationwide.

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See the complete filed petition here.