A Georgia Senate bill that would block construction of a landfill on the Satilla River in Brantley County stalled in a House committee Tuesday.

Senate Bill 384 would prohibit the construction of new solid waste disposal facilities — including coal ash — within three miles of the Satilla River’s high water mark. As currently written, it would not affect existing landfills.

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