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Red Flags for Northern Beltline in New Regional Transportation Plan for Birmingham
The Birmingham Metropolitan Planning Organization’s draft of the 2040 Regional Transportation Plan shows that over half of available funding for new road projects for the next 25 years will be squandered on the Northern Beltline.
Conservation Groups Support Forest Service Decision to Keep GW Off Limits to Gas Drilling & Fracking
Charlottesville, VA – Local conservation and community groups expressed support for today’s decision from the U.S. Forest Service to make the George Washington National Forest (GW) unavailable for oil and gas drilling.
U.S. Forest Service Proposes Opening Most of the Popular Pisgah-Nantahala National Forest to Logging
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing industrial-scale logging in the vast majority of the Pisgah-Nantahala National Forest in western North Carolina -- about 700,000 acres, or an area bigger than the Great Smoky Mountains National...
SELC Calls for Stronger Protections for Southeastern Wetlands in Comments to EPA
SELC filed comments today on the Environmental Protection Agency’s and the Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed rule to clarify what streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands are protected under the Clean Water Act.
Settlement Reached on Protecting World’s Only Wild Red Wolves from Deadly Mistaken Identity
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of NC today indicated its approval of a settlement agreement between conservation nonprofits and the NC Wildlife Resources Commission to address shootings of the world's only population...
Conservation Groups File Notice Against Tenn. Valley Auth. Over Coal Ash Pollution at Gallatin Plant
Gallatin, TN – Coal ash ponds at Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Gallatin Fossil Plant have been leaking harmful pollutants into the Cumberland River and surrounding groundwater for decades in violation of the Clean Water Act,...
Coal Ash Pollution Cases Against Duke Energy
A Superior Court ruling allows the Roanoke River Basin Association, represented by the SELC, to participate as a full party with respect to two Duke Energy coal ash sites near the Virginia border.
Clean Energy Benefits Virginia
Today, Governor McAuliffe is expected to outline his vision for a “New Economy of Virginia” through implementation of the 2014 Virginia Energy Plan. While we don’t support all of the plan’s recommendations, the McAuliffe administration...
Conservation Groups Challenge Unlawful Permit to Prevent Further Shoreline Damage
SELC and our partners have filed suit in federal court challenging the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers’ use of a permit that allows construction of bulkheads, seawalls, and other hardened structures to be built without...
Citizen Group Seeks Voice in Coal Ash Pollution Actions at Duke Energy’s Roxboro and Mayo Facilities
SELC today filed a request with Wake County Superior Court that the citizens group be allowed to participate in the pending coal ash enforcement actions against Duke Energy for its coal ash pollution at its...