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SELC Highlights Concern Over Offshore Seismic Surveys
The U.S. Minerals and Management Service (MMS) is holding a public hearing in Norfolk today as it starts the process of reviewing the environmental impacts of conducting seismic studies that would be used to support...
SELC Highlights Concern Over Offshore Seismic Surveys
The U.S. Minerals and Management Service (MMS) is holding a public hearing in Norfolk today as it starts the process of reviewing the environmental impacts of conducting seismic studies that would be used to support...
Army Corps Voids Earlier Withdrawal of Protections for Wetlands near Charleston
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers late last week rescinded an earlier decision to remove federal protections for 492 acres of wetlands in Black Tom Bay near Charleston and informed the developer that waters subject...
Army Corps Voids Earlier Withdrawal of Protections for Wetlands near Charleston
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers late last week rescinded an earlier decision to remove federal protections for 492 acres of wetlands in Black Tom Bay near Charleston and informed the developer that waters subject...
Clarify Legal Protections for Streams and Wetlands
SELC welcomes the introduction of a bi-partisan compromise in the U.S. House of Representatives that restores long overdue protections for streams and wetlands.
Clarify Legal Protections for Streams and Wetlands
SELC welcomes the introduction of a bi-partisan compromise in the U.S. House of Representatives that restores long overdue protections for streams and wetlands.
EPA “Tailpipe” Rule Curbing Greenhouse Gases Offers Multiple Benefits for the South
The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation today jointly issued a historic rule on curbing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from light-duty vehicles, which contribute about one-fourth of America's share of the world's...
Obama Administration Takes Giant Step Backward in Opening Virginia and South Atlantic to Offshore Drilling
The White House today released an updated plan for offshore oil and gas drilling that includes a three million acre area off Virginia's coast -- the first ever drilling allowed off the U.S. Atlantic coast--and...
Six Months of Oil Not Worth Risking Southern Beaches and Fisheries
Opening much of the U.S. East Coast for the first time to oil and gas drilling risks too much for the South.
Environmental Groups go to Court to Counter Virginia Attorney General’s Effort to Block Action on Cl
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's challenge to the EPA's finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare is an unwarranted stall tactic, and a dangerous distraction from grappling with the damaging impacts of climate...