Sorry, we just didn’t want to be outdone by Milloy’s great song reference.

Vicki Lawrence’s 1972 hit, “The night the lights went out in Georgia,” may become the official state song thanks to what passes for justice in the court of Fulton County, GA judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore.

Acting on a petition from the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Chattahoochee, Judge Moore invalidated a permit issued by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division allowing Longleaf Energy Associates to build a 1,200 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Early County.

The key issue in the case is the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the proposed plant.