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Groups Appeal to Court for Reliable Route to Hatteras
Before the N.C. Department of Transportation commits public resources to building and maintaining a patchwork of bridges and highway in the Atlantic Ocean’s tidal zone and surf for the next 50 years, conservation groups today...
Updated Rules for Coal Air Pollution, Recent Plant Struggles Underscore High Risk of Proposed Washin
New federal safeguards for coal pollution cast further doubt on the fate of the proposed Plant Washington coal-fired power plant in Sandersville, GA.
Appeals Court Rules Against Alabama Power in Clean Air Act Enforcement
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals today reversed an Alabama trial court’s decision excluding expert evidence in a Clean Air Act enforcement case that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brought against Alabama Power Company. The...
Plans to Flood Blounts Creek with Mine Wastewater Challenged
On behalf of the Pamlico-Tar River Foundation and the N.C. Coastal Federation, the Southern Environmental Law Center today challenged a state permit that would allow a proposed Martin Marietta mine to flood a popular fishing...
N.C. Violated its Duty by Permitting More, Avoidable Pollution from Titan’s Proposed Cement Plant
The state failed to uphold its legal responsibility to protect people from avoidable harm by authorizing increased pollution from the proposed Titan America cement plant in New Hanover County, according to documents filed today by...
Conservation Groups in Federal Court over Duke Energy Progress’s Coal Ash Pollution of Sutton Lake and Groundwater near Wilmington
Conservation groups today filed suit in federal court against Duke Energy Progress, Inc., to clean up the company’s toxic coal ash pollution of Sutton Lake near Wilmington, N.C, and coal ash pollution of groundwater at...
Conservation Groups Applaud Auction for Virginia Offshore Wind Energy Area
In a step forward for offshore wind energy development, today the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of Interior auctioned approximately 113,000 acres off the coast of Virginia for commercial wind energy development for over...
Wise Energy for Virginia responds to the filing of Dominion’s 2013 Integrated Resource Plan
Dominion’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is required to evaluate how the company will meet its customer’s energy needs over the next fifteen years at the lowest reasonable cost. In a report released earlier this week,...
Unprecedented North Carolina Waiver of Water Quality Protections Challenged
On behalf of American Rivers, the Southern Environmental Law Center challenged the North Carolina Department of the Environment and Natural Resources’ unprecedented waiver of its responsibility to uphold water quality protections that allows an unneeded...
Five Things to Look for as Dominion Virginia Power Lays out Long-Range Energy Plan
Dominion Virginia Power is required to file its 2013 long-range energy plan with the Virginia State Corporation Commission by September 1. Critical decisions about how a utility will meet its customer’s electricity needs over the...