Action Center
Your voice is essential to preserving our region’s natural treasures and providing a healthy environment for all. From local to national environmental issues, get involved with SELC to make a difference. Be part of the solution. Take action now.
Protect our coast from offshore mining
Recently, the Trump Administration announced that it is considering opening federal waters off Virginia’s coast to seabed mining. Speak up to protect our coasts and wildlife: tell BOEM we don’t want this extractive industry in our beloved oceans.
Take ActionProtect Lake Mitchell from a harmful mining proposal
An open pit mining operation threatens to scour more than1,100 acres of forest in Coosa County, Alabama. This mine would be next door to Lake Mitchell, the historic Pinhoti Trail, Coosa Wildlife Management Area, and Weogufka Creek. This mine is too great a risk for Coosa County. Join us and tell the Army Corps of Engineers to protect Lake Mitchell.
Take ActionSupport the Energy Bills Relief Act now.
For too long, Southerners have unfairly footed the bill so that utilities can make a profit. With projected load growth and increasing strain on an aging grid from data centers, costs are projected to keep increasing. Families are struggling to keep up. But a new bill introduced in Congress would provide real solutions: The Energy Bills Relief Act. This legislation will help lower energy bills for Southern households and enhance grid resilience.
Take ActionTell Congress to put guardrails on data centers
Across the South, communities are showing up and telling utilities, local elected officials, and tech companies that they won’t quietly accept the AI data center buildout without pushing back. On both sides of the aisle, Americans are demanding a say in the impact of these facilities on our water, clean air, and energy. Email your representatives in Congress and demand they stand up for communities over Big Tech’s AI data center push.
Take ActionTell Congress to stop EPA from weakening protections for cancer-causing pollution.
The Trump administration is putting Southern communities’ health and clean air at risk by giving industry a pass to pollute, including commercial sterilizer facilities that release a cancer-causing chemical. Tell our Congressional representatives to stand up for our health and right to clean air and urge EPA not to weaken federal safeguards that reduceethylene oxide pollution and cancer risks.
Take ActionTell Charleston leaders to stop harmful development of Cainhoy
About 20 miles north of Charleston, developers are constructing a new small city on the Cainhoy peninsula, which currently provides habitat for endangered and threatened wildlife species, has thousands of acres of wetlands and creeks, and borders the Francis Marion National Forest. Tell Charleston leaders to protect this special place.
Take ActionSave the South’s wildest forests
For decades, some of the South’s wildest public lands have been safeguarded by a critical Forest Service policy called the Roadless Rule. But now, the U.S. Forest Service is proposing to rescind the Roadless Rule, putting these iconic places—and their countless benefits—on the chopping block. Tell Congress to fight back against this misguided effort to get rid of the Roadless Rule and to ensure these spectacular public lands can be enjoyed by future generations.
Take ActionTell Congress: No toxic chemicals in our drinking water.
Right now, the federal government is working to remove drinking water safeguards that would keep PFAS out of our taps. Tell your elected representatives to hold the line on these existing protections against toxic forever chemicals and keep our families and communities safe.
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