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Groups Intervene to Ensure Piping Plover Survival
The Southern Environmental Law Center, Defenders of Wildlife, and the National Audubon Society today stepped in to defend the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s decision to designate portions of Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Pea...
Interior Secretary Salazar seeks to vacate rule that allowed coal industry to ruin Appalachian streams
A key claim in SELC's lawsuit was that the Bush administration failed to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for impacts to at-risk species before issuing the rule, as required by the Endangered...
EPA’s finding that global warming pollution endangers public health has major implications for the South
Today the Environmental Protection Agency issued a preliminary determination that carbon dioxide and other pollutants that contribute to climate change jeopardize human health and the environment, marking a historic step toward establishing comprehensive, nationwide restrictions...
New Report: Across America, Waters in Crisis
For decades, the Clean Water Act has broadly protected America’s lakes, rivers, streams, and drinking water sources from unregulated pollution and destruction, rescuing them from the dire straits they were in during the late 1960s...
Groups File Suit to Block State Air Pollution Permit for Unneeded Pee Dee Coal Plant
South Carolina’s environmental agency illegally permitted coal-fired power plant.
Virginia legislature passes energy efficiency bills
The General Assembly has passed several bills promoting energy efficiency, a chief goal of SELC and our Virginia partners. Though the bills don’t include all we had worked for, they represent an important shift toward...
Federal Court Overturns Permit for Massive Reservoir in Virginia
A federal court has overturned a permit issued by the Corps of Engineers for a massive impoundment in King William County, Virginia that would have resulted in the single largest, authorized loss of wetlands in...
EPA Determination of Unacceptable Environmental Harm Triggers Examination of PCS Phosphate Mining Expansion
Rare decision reflects the agency’s determination that the project would cause harm to a nationally important body of water.
Congress bestows permanent protection for 9 special areas in Virginia’s mountain forests
With a 285-140 vote in the U.S. House today, Congress has officially passed a bill that permanently protects more than 53,000 acres of the Jefferson National Forest in the mountains of southwest Virginia - the...
Wetlands Protection at Stake in Challenge to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
SELC has challenged a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers go-ahead to fill one of the largest remaining intact wetlands in an area near Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.