ATLANTA (CN) — An 11th Circuit panel on Monday unanimously ruled a lawsuit accusing the Georgia Power Company and Honeywell International Inc. of continuing to contaminate coastal marshlands with hazardous waste should be heard in federal — not state — court. The panel of three Trump-appointed judges overturned a Georgia federal judge’s decision to remand the lawsuit filed by the city of Brunswick, Georgia, to state court. The 2016 consent decree requires Georgia Power and Honeywell International to conduct a $29 million cleanup effort at a 760-acre saltwater marsh site. “While Georgia Power has owned property at the site and in the area, we were not involved in the operations of the chemical plant,” Kent said. The site was used by Georgia Power before it was acquired by a corporation that later became Honeywell.