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Santee Cooper proposes potentially destructive transmission line through Beidler Forest
Audubon joins environmental groups to intervene in proceedings to protect unique, old-growth forest COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Francis Beidler Forest, the world’s largest original-growth cypress-tupelo swamp forest, would face irreversible impacts if an application currently...
Montgomery Circuit Court denies public access to Alabama Power fuel cost proceedings
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Yesterday, the Montgomery County Circuit Court denied an appeal by Energy Alabama, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, challenging the Alabama Public Service Commission’s dismissal of Energy Alabama’s requests to intervene in proceedings...
New report: U.S. data center projected power demand exceeds capacity of global chip suppliers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report released today by London Economics International (LEI) commissioned by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), finds that electricity demand forecasts tied to U.S. data center growth are...
Congress passes disastrous tax bill
H.R. 1, formerly known as the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” puts politics over people WASHINGTON — Today, Congress passed a disastrous bill that is deeply unpopular with the American people. The bill guts clean energy and clean...
Memphis health leaders grant air permit for xAI data center
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Today, the Shelby County Health Department announced it would grant xAI’s request for an air permit, allowing the company to run 15 polluting methane gas turbines at its South Memphis data...
Senate passes federal tax bill that hurts the South’s economy
The Senate pushes harmful policies in the “Big, Bad, Not-so-Beautiful Bill,” including slashing clean energy tax credits. WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate passed a harmful budget reconciliation bill that would gut clean energy and electric...
Georgia Public Service Commission approves Georgia Power’s request to bypass bill transparency hearings
ATLANTA—Today, the Georgia Public Service Commission voted to approve a request by Georgia Power to bypass a monthslong legal process that would have given the public and advocates the opportunity to examine the financials behind...
Community and fishermen urge FERC to halt unlawful construction on massive CP2 LNG export project
Cameron Parish, La. — Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of For a Better Bayou, Fishermen Involved in Sustaining Our Heritage (FISH), impacted commercial fishermen and landowners, and other community and...
Suing the Trump administration for terminating environmental and climate justice grants
Terminating these programs leaves communities more vulnerable to pollution and disasters Washington — Today, a coalition of nonprofits, Tribes and local governments sued the Trump administration for unlawfully terminating the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)...
Judge Orders Lifting of Trump Administration’s Unlawful Freeze of More than A Billion Dollars For Electric Vehicle Charging
WASHINGTON STATE – Yesterday, United States District Court Judge Tana Lin for the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington issued a preliminary injunction lifting the Trump administration’s unlawful freeze of federal funding for the...