Evan Mallen, a senior analyst at Georgia Tech’s Urban Climate Lab and a technical contributor to the assessment, said the report makes clear that heat does not affect everyone equally.

Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, is pledging to make his state the "electric mobility capital" of the country without embracing the climate realities that are helping drive the transition.

Georgia is developing its first-ever climate plan with a $3 million grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Metro Atlanta is set to create one of its own with a separate $1 ...