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Clean energy advocates react to Duke Energy’s proposed Carbon Plan
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Clean energy groups involved in the North Carolina Utilities Commission proceeding to develop a new state plan for reducing heat-trapping carbon pollution from electricity generation—known as the Carbon Plan—reacted to a proposed plan by...
Groups appeal class action dismissal
WASHINGTON — This week the Southern Environmental Law Center, along with Earth Justice, Public Rights Project, and Lawyers for Good Government, on behalf of nonprofit groups, tribes and local governments, appealed a judge’s decision to dismiss a...
Testimony of SELC Air Program Leader Keri Powell before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Clean Air Act permitting reform
WASHINGTON – Today Southern Environmental Law Center Air Program Leader and Senior Attorney Keri Powell testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee at a legislative hearing on several bills proposing Clean Air Act permitting reform...
Agreement stops sediment pollution of Durham streams, results in fines and preservation of 62-acre tract
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Sound Rivers and the Southern Environmental Law Center today announced the settlement of a lawsuit to stop ongoing sediment pollution from a residential development into two Durham...
Congaree Riverkeeper and SELC threaten to sue Columbia plant for plastic pollution, other discharges
Pollution of the Congaree River violates federal Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, groups say CHARLESTON, S.C. — Today, Congaree Riverkeeper, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, told two major plastic manufacturing...
Louisiana fishermen, communities, and public interest organizations ask D.C. Circuit to halt harmful construction of Venture Global’s CP2 export LNG terminal and pipeline
Local fishermen, community members and leaders, and public interest organizations filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit seeking to halt harmful construction of Virginia-based Venture Global’s massive Calcasieu Pass...
Santee Cooper and National Audubon Society announce agreement on transmission line span through Beidler Forest
CHARLESTON, S.C. — On August 29, Santee Cooper and the National Audubon Society filed a Stipulation with the Public Service Commission of South Carolina regarding a 1.5 mile span of the proposed 21.5 mile Wassamassaw–Indian...
Commission approves Appalachian Power Company proposal reducing compensation to rooftop solar customers for net exports while retaining essential elements of net metering
RICHMOND, VA. — The State Corporation Commission (SCC) approved Appalachian Power Company’s proposal to cut by 70% the compensation rate for net excess power that rooftop solar systems supply to the grid, with a few...
Alabama churches and pastor face SLAPP suit after defending parishioners and community against a harmful quarry
BELLE MINA, Ala.— Two small, historic Alabama churches and a pastor face retaliatory lawsuit for exercising their right to oppose a highly disruptive quarry in their community. With support from the Southern Environmental Law Center,...
Spartanburg County data center could emit harmful air pollution without enforceable limits
Environmental groups voice health and community concerns COLUMBIA, S.C. — Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Sierra Club Upstate, sent a letter to the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services raising concerns about a...