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 Richmond communities from cancer-causing air pollution leaks.
A Richmond facility recently leaked nearly 600 pounds of cancer-causing ethylene oxide into the air without any notice to surrounding communities. Tell Virginia leaders to take action and stop this toxic air pollution.
Take ActionTell Birmingham city council that communities need a say in data center decisions
Birmingham is considering watering down data center rules and cutting the conversation short for some communities. Hyperscale data centers have significant impacts on neighboring residents. The only way to guarantee data center proposals are transparent, responsible, and bring real economic benefits is to have communities in the room where zoning decisions are being made. Tell local elected officials your voice matters.
Take ActionSay no to toxic coal ash in our water
The Trump administration is accepting comments on its proposal to eliminate common-sense, nationwide minimum standards that protect clean water and prevent catastrophic coal ash spills and other disasters. Coal ash polluters asked the Trump administration to eliminate protections against their coal ash pollution. Help us tell EPA and Congress that it should reject this polluter requested proposal and, instead, keep these safeguards to protect our water and communities against coal ash pollution.
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 ActionKeep toxic pollution out of NC drinking water
North Carolina is proposing to adopt a set of polluter-written rules that require no reduction of toxic PFAS and cancer-causing 1,4-dioxane pollution in our drinking water throughout the state. Under the rules, industry could increase harmful pollutionwithout consequence, threatening millions of North Carolinians. Tell the commission that it should reject these polluter-written rules and, instead, adopt rules that protect people over polluters’ profits.
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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