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SELC challenges FERC’s approval of new energy trading platform
WASHINGTON — The Southern Environmental Law Center, along with a coalition of clean energy advocates, national and regional environmental groups, and energy equity organizations, has filed an appeal asking the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Protect waterways to better protect communities SELC tells Biden administration
WASHINGTON—The Southern Environmental Law Center today submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency that were also signed by 90 organizations urging the Biden administration to finalize rulemaking to protect critical wetlands, streams, and other waters...
Coosa Riverkeeper, SELC file suit against Newcastle Homes for stormwater pollution
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Southern Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of Coosa Riverkeeper today in federal court against Newcastle Homes for consistently violating the Clean Water Act in Shelby County.
New web tool digs into development decisions and flooding
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A new website and interactive mapping tool released today by the Southern Environmental Law Center will allow citizens, activists and policymakers to look at how both current and proposed infrastructure will fare...
Draft North Carolina General Permit for animal waste to gas projects curtails public input and fails to protect communities or the environment
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality on Tuesday issued a draft permit that would allow existing industrial animal operations to build and operate animal waste digester systems that use hog feces...
SELC statement on U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s revised proposed rule to downlist red-cockaded woodpecker
ATLANTA, Ga. — Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a revised proposal to reclassify the red-cockaded woodpecker. In response to the announcement, SELC Staff Attorney Ramona McGee released the following statement...
SELC, NAACP act to defend environmental justice, denial of Lambert Compressor Station permit
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — On behalf of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, today the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit in order to defend the denial of a permit for...
Conservation Groups Continue Fight Against Unnecessary $500 Million Mid-Currituck Bridge
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – On behalf of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation and local residents from the Currituck mainland and northern Outer Banks, the Southern Environmental Law Center today filed an appeal asking the United...
SELC statement on Youngkin Administration’s Executive Order to Remove Virginia from RGGI
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Yesterday Governor Youngkin issued an Executive Order directing a regulatory process to end Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a program designed to fight climate change that has already...
EPA to investigate discriminatory harm from N.C. hog operations after civil rights complaint
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — In response to a civil rights complaint filed by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of the Duplin County Branch of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and...