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Anila Yoganathan

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Reporter based in the South. Talk to me about energy, environment, tech and manufacturing. Oh, and the odd wholesome feature story. Currently with Atlanta Business Chronicle. Website: anilayoganathan.com

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Flatwater Free Press @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
New at Flatwater: A department at UNL has produced homegrown meteorologists and geologists who have gone on to serve in critical roles. Earlier this month, NU’s regents eliminated the program. 🔗 buff.ly/bDFeSBm
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Flatwater Free Press @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
New at Flatwater: The investigation of a teen’s death at Pillen Family Farms was marred by missteps, The New York Times and the Flatwater Free Press found. Said Dr. Erin Linde, who did the autopsy: “The type of investigation that really should have been done wasn’t done.” 🔗 buff.ly/oy9OswZ
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Atlanta is on its way to making major upgrades to its aging water and wastewater infrastructure. As the new water commissioner steps in, questions about the costs of these upgrades still remain. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
When you think about the data centers coming to metro Atlanta you might think of the energy demand to the electric grid. But you need to start thinking about the impact to our regional water supply. Here's more on the topic: www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Metro Atlanta possesses most of the essential ingredients for a data center boom: ample land, extensive fiber-optic networks and electric utilities willing to expand power-generation capacity. But the region is challenged in another, less obvious, resource: water. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Thanks so much for having me on, Mitch!
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Mitch Leff @mitchleff.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This week, our "4 Questions Journalist Spotlight" shines on Anila Yoganathan with the Atlanta Business Chronicle, a weekly paper covering Atlanta biz news. Coolest Thing About Anila: Her mother runs a pottery business and she loves helping her set up for shows! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
FREYR Battery, the company that is pulling out of Georgia, owes state and local governments repayments for incentives and grants and has experienced a lot of change in the last year. Here's some of what has been going on behind the scenes: www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The aerospace industry continues to grow in Georgia. Small turbojet engine manufacturer PBS AEROSPACE Inc. plans to establish a North American headquarters in Roswell. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Aerospace company to open North American HQ in metro Atlanta - Atlanta Business Chronicle
PBS Aerospace manufactures turbojet engines and auxiliary power units for the DOD and the commercial market.
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A few weeks ahead of reporting quarterly results, Atlanta-based legacy fintech NCR Voyix has ousted President and CEO David Wilkinson and replaced him with Executive Chair James Kelly. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Atlanta fintech, Corpay (NYSE: CPAY) announced a definitive agreement to buy a Brazilian vehicle registration and compliance payments company called Gringo. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Atlanta fintech Corpay to buy Brazilian company that facilitates vehicle tax payments - Atlanta Business Chronicle
Corpay is buying Gringo, whose app lets drivers pay for vehicle taxes, fines and registration fees.
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hydrogen tech and fuel is coming to the Savannah area, Georgia: www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Got to interview Georgia Tech President Cabrera on the university's leadership traveling to Korea to connect more with businesses and universities there. Here's what he told me about their trip: www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Simon Mahan @simonmahan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"Clean energy resources and transmission solutions are vital to reducing customer costs and maintaining the high level of reliability Georgians have grown accustomed to," Simon Mahan, executive director of Southern Renewable Energy Association www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
For those of you following energy down here, Georgia Power just out their draft long-term energy growth plan: Here's a breakdown of how this Southern Company subsidiary is handling the exponential demand growth from data centers, manufacturing and more: www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Georgia Power electric grid demand to increase by 50% by end of 2030 - Atlanta Business Chronicle
Data centers account for over 80% of potential new large customers through 2037 for Georgia Power.
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Kristi E. Swartz @bizwriterkristi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Is it me, or did this seem to come out of nowhere Lyash was TVA’s biggest advocate for advanced nuclear, too H/t to @anilayoganathan.bsky.social for flagging www.wvlt.tv/2025/01/31/t...
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Tennessee Valley Authority CEO to retire
Lyash will continue to serve as CEO until the TVA Board of Directors names a successor.
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Major U.S. companies are counting on a Marietta manufacturer to help get passenger baggage to its destination, move boxes across distribution centers or retrieve products for shipment. Here's more on Vanderlande, a Toyota Automated Logistics Group subsidiary: www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A California-based fiber infrastructure provider is expanding its network in metro Atlanta to support the growing number of data centers coming to the area. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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kdokc.bsky.social @kdokc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
@anilayoganathan.bsky.social I really enjoyed this coverage. Good write-up, and thanks! www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Decaturish @decaturish.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This story will be updated when more information is available.
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Report: ICE makes arrests in DeKalb, including at a church in Tucker
Agents with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement made an unspecified number of arrests in DeKalb County on Sunday.
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A homegrown solar energy company, Cherry Street Energy, is growing the solar market here in Georgia. Here's how they're doing it and why it's important for the clean energy industry and the demand for energy in the Southeast: www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Decaturish @decaturish.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A popular popsicle purveyor is selling part of its business and its products will begin appearing in markets outside the South. King of Pops announced on Jan. 6 that Rainforest Distribution has bought P10 Foods, the distribution company started by King of Pops 10 years ago.
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King of Pops sells part of business ahead of plans to expand franchise
A popular popsicle purveyor is selling part of its business and its products will begin appearing in markets outside the South.
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
There’s free shuttles from the King Memorial MARTA station to go to the Carter Center running every 15 minutes
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
So thankful to @atlantanewsfirst.com and @decaturish.bsky.social for having me on to talk about our coverage at Atlanta Business Chronicle on Atlanta infrastructure, BioLab and energy. @appenmedia.bsky.social @bizjournals.com decaturish.com/2024/12/anil...
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Anila Yoganathan discusses BioLab, ATL Watershed and more on the Decatur Dish show
Atlanta Business Chronicle reporter Anila Yoganathan joined the Decatur Dish show on Dec. 17 to discuss her coverage of the BioLab fire, a water main break in Atlanta and Georgia's growing energy need...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
At least 1,056 individuals sought medical treatment across Georgia hospitals and urgent care facilities related to exposure to the chemicals from the BioLab fire and plume, according to a report issued by the Georgia Department of Public Health. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Georgia Tech has received a rapid grant award from the National Science Foundation to study the emissions from BioLab's fire and plume. Professor Greg Huey's group conducted air monitoring during the incident at the request of City of Conyers in Rockdale County. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
After running one of Atlanta's only LGBTQ+ media publications for about 15 years, the publisher of the Georgia Voice, Tim Boyd, is selling it to local media outlet Rough Draft. "I wanted to make it sustainable," Boyd said. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The state of Georgia has chosen six sets of local development authorities to receive a combined $9.3 million in grants for development of industrial sites in rural areas, as economic development officials try to stay competitive with other states. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Norcross-based Suniva has reached a deal to supply solar panel components to Imperial Star Solar in Texas. Together they will produce some of the only crystalline modules that use solar cells made in the United States, according to a news release. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Appen Media Group @appenmedia.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Gwinnett Technical College has appointed Melvin Everson vice president of Community and Government Affairs. #education #highereducation #gwinnetttech #gwinnett #gwinnettcounty
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Gwinnett Tech appoints vice president of Community and Governmental Affairs
Gwinnett Technical College has appointed Melvin Everson vice president of Community and Government Affairs.
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A major investor is demanding that AGCO strip CEO Eric Hansotia of his board chairmanship duties as it pursues broader changes at the Duluth-based company. The two companies also had a commercial partnership that was terminated this year. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
UFP Packaging, a Michigan-based company, is opening a 10,000 square-foot design and development center in Newnan, Georgia. The company is a subsidiary of UFP Industries Inc., a publicly traded company. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Appen Media Group @appenmedia.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Fulton County School District’s new transfer policy is turning heads, seen as a solution to declining enrollment but also an end unto itself for some. #fultonco #fultoncounty #fultonga #fultongeorgia #education
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Fulton Co. students can now transfer for any reason. Just not to any school.
Fulton County’s new transfer policy makes it open to all students. However, schools undergoing redistricting are off the table and the window to apply is small. An Appen Media analysis
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A global electric conduit and cables manufacturer, Atkore, is caught up in a dispute between the city of Cartersville and Georgia Power regarding a property the company intends to develop. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Virgil R. Miller, president of Georgia-based Fortune 500 company Aflac, will be joining Georgia Power Co.'s board of directors in 2025. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Arketi Group, an Atlanta based business-to-business marketing firm for tech companies, is being acquired by two private equity firms, Go Capital and Station Partners. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The U.S. Department of Energy has conditionally granted a Rivian Automotive Inc. subsidiary a $6.57 billion direct loan. The money would go toward construction of Rivian's manufacturing facility in Georgia, which is now set to be operational in 2028. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
For almost 30 years, the city of Atlanta has been trying to fix its aging stormwater and sewer infrastructure to reduce flooding, prevent water-quality issues and protect public health. Despite this, flooding and subsequent contamination risks persist. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Jeff Grubb has spent his entire career with Georgia Power. During that time, he has seen its largest jump in energy demand occur in just the last few years. "You had 40 years of growth in two years" from 2020-2022, Grubb said. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Data center investments are growing in the outer metro Atlanta counties. Here's more on two projects that have updates: one new one in Walton County and one expansion in Douglas County. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Technology is baked into the DNA of Peachtree Corners. Over the past five years, the city has built on that tradition by creating the Curiosity Lab, which fosters economic development opportunities and has modernized local infrastructure. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As water infrastructure challenges have been top of mind in metro Atlanta this year, funding for an overhaul continues to be limited. However with more developments using water, the infrastructure isn't ready to meet all these demands. www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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Anila Yoganathan @anilayoganathan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
For all my metro Atlanta, law, environmental and health people. Here's an update on the class action cases from the BioLab fire that took place in Conyers back in Sept. and resulted in a plume wafting over the metro. 21 cases are consolidated in federal court: www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...
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