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Fight over participation in Alabama fuel cost proceedings heads to Circuit Court
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-- This week Energy Alabama, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, appealed the Alabama Public Service Commission’s denial of Energy Alabama’s intervention in Alabama Power’s fuel cost proceedings. The appeal was filed Montgomery...
U.S. Supreme Court denies utility effort to block coal ash rule
WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Supreme Court denied a utility’s attempt to block protections against pollution from old coal ash dumps at inactive power plants, which leak arsenic, mercury, lead, and many other pollutants into nearby rivers,...
Alabama quarry developers sued in Circuit Court
BELLE MINA, Ala.-- New Beginnings Covenant Ministries and Belle Mina Methodist Church, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), filed a lawsuit against Stoned LLC and Grayson Carter & Son, Inc. in Limestone County...
Duke Energy’s Roxboro gas plant would mean more pollution, excessive costs for North Carolinians
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— The North Carolina Utilities Commission’s...
Data center analysis leaves some big questions unanswered
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – Today the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) released its much-anticipated report on data centers in Virginia. Virginia is known as the data center capital of the world. The state is...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers directs CSX to stop mining Nolichucky River
ERWIN, Tenn. — This week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sent a letter to CSX Transportation, ordering the rail company to stop mining the Nolichucky River for rock and fill. The letter comes...
SC withdraws I-526 extension funding, dooming destructive project
State revokes authorization after decisive failure of sales tax referendum COLUMBIA, S.C. — Monday, South Carolina’s Joint Bond Review Committee formally revoked authorization and funding for the I-526 or “Mark Clark” Extension after Charleston County...
FERC Temporarily Halts Construction of Controversial CP2 LNG
WASHINGTON – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order setting aside its approval for Venture Globa’s massive CP2 export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The order modifies and, in part, sets aside the...
Duke’s proposed gas plants would leave communities to bear costs of increased air pollution
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— Clean energy advocates urged the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality on Friday to deny or modify two pending draft air permits for Duke Energy’s proposed Roxboro and Marshall gas-fired...
Alabama regulators deny public access to fuel cost proceedings
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Yesterday the Alabama Public Service Commission denied a second attempt by Energy Alabama to intervene in Alabama Power’s Rate Energy Cost Recovery (ECR), or fuel cost, proceedings. The Southern Environmental...