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September 19, 2025
This image from video provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via DVIDS shows manufacturing plant employees being escorted outside the Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle plant, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga.
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Attorney Says Detained Korean Hyundai Workers Had Special Skills for Short-Term Jobs
They reportedly came to install and repair equipment that would take U.S. workers years to learn.
September 9, 2025
The Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America is seen on March 26, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga.
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ICE Raids Hyundai EV Factory Site
WATCH: Authorities detained about 475 people.
September 4, 2025
A Boston Dynamics robot works on the line during a media tour at the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga.
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Hyundai Shows Off Its New $7.6B Electric Vehicle Plant in Georgia
The automaker plans to expand its production capacity to a total of 500,000 vehicles per year.
March 27, 2025
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Georgia Seaport Surpasses Baltimore as Top U.S. Auto Port
Baltimore's port was shut down for weeks following a deadly bridge collapse.
February 13, 2025
A factory building is under construction at Hyundai's first U.S. plant for manufacturing electric vehicles, Oct. 25, 2023, in Ellabell, Ga.
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Group to Sue U.S. Agencies for Failing to Assess Hyundai Plant's Environmental Impact
The company expects the $7.6B EV and battery plant in Georgia to employ 8,000 workers.
June 4, 2024
A group of visitors return to Stephen C. Foster State Park after an overnight camping trip on the Red Trail in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge on April 6, 2022, in Fargo, Ga. A member of President Joe Biden's cabinet urged Georgia officials in a letter dated Nov. 22, 2022, to deny permits for a proposed mine near the edge of the famed Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge, saying the plan poses “unacceptable risk” to the swamp's fragile ecology.
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Interior Secretary: `Unacceptable' to Mine Near Famed Swamp
Twin Pines Minerals has been seeking government permits since 2019 to mine titanium oxide on land 2.9 miles from the boundary.
December 8, 2022
The Hyundai company logo hangs over a long row of cars at a car dealership in Centennial, Colo., Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. Georgia officials are close to finalizing a deal with the automaker to build a $5.5 billion electric car plant near Savannah, Ga. An economic development agency representing four Savannah-area counties approved its portions of the agreement Tuesday, July 19, 2022, including an economic incentives package.
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Hyundai Nets $1.8B in Tax Breaks for GA Plant
It's the largest economic development deal in the state's history.
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Hyundai Announces $5.5B Electric Vehicle Plant in Georgia
It will also produce vehicle batteries.
May 23, 2022
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Announcement Expected to Confirm $7B Auto Plant in Georgia
It would employ up to 8,500 workers.
May 20, 2022
Commissioners in coastal Camden County said in a statement Thursday, April 14, 2022, they have approved purchasing 4,000 acres for the proposed Spaceport Camden.
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Georgia County Still Pursuing Spaceport Voters Rejected
Officials have spent the past decade and over $10 million pursuing a commercial spaceport.
April 15, 2022
This artist's sketch provided by Spaceport Camden shows the launch pad complex of the proposed Spaceport Camden in Camden County, Ga. A Georgia county's plan to build a launchpad for commercial rockets is going before voters in a referendum forced by opponents of the project. The special election Tuesday, March 8, 2022 in coastal Camden County gives voters a chance to block county commissioners from purchasing 4,000 acres of land for the planned Spaceport Camden.
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Georgia Courts Won't Intervene in Rejected Spaceport Project
Camden County commissioners have shown no sign of abandoning the project despite voters renouncing it 3-to-1.
March 11, 2022
Jane Winkler stands with a sign outside a church where Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp met with local Chamber of Commerce members, Folkston, Ga., April 22, 2021.
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Feds Sidestep Fate of Planned Mine, Leave Up to State
It's just one high-profile example of federal regulators sidestepping projects because of the rule changes under Trump.
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Flames Engulf Cargo Ship's Remains
It's too early to know how much the blaze might delay efforts to remove the partly submerged shipwreck that remains off the Georgia coast.
May 17, 2021
In this Sept. 9, 2019, file photo, a Moran tugboat nears the stern of the capsizing vessel Golden Ray near St. Simons Sound off the coast of Georgia. The salvage team is seeking a federal permit to surround the shipwreck with a giant mesh barrier to contain any debris when they cut the ship apart. Salvage workers coming to the Georgia coast to cut apart and remove the cargo ship that overturned will be isolated at a nearby resort to protect them from the coronavirus, officials said Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020.
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Demolition Starts on Overturned Ship
“We expect there will be noise, fires, product discharges, and debris," said Georgia's DNR.
November 9, 2020