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Agreement Allowing Toxic 1,4 Dioxane Pollution in Drinking Water Source Challenged in Court
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — An agreement by state regulators with the City of Greensboro allows increased discharges of cancer causing 1,4-dioxane into the drinking water source for nearly one million people in violation of the...
Concerned Citizens Challenge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fast-Track Water Permit for Byhalia Pipeline
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), filed suit late yesterday on behalf of Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP)*, Protect Our Aquifer, and the Sierra Club, against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’...
Energy Bill Help and Access to Clean Energy
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — An order by the N.C. Utilities Commission in Duke Energy Carolinas’ most recent rate case included approval of a settlement agreement that the North Carolina Justice Center, North Carolina Housing Coalition,...
Customers, Conservation Groups File Federal Challenge against Alabama Power’s Discriminatory Solar Charges
WASHINGTON — A petition filed today with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) asserts that the Alabama Public Service Commission (PSC) violated federal law when it allowed Alabama Power to impose punitive charges against customers with...
Landmark Environmental Justice Bill Introduced in Congress
WASHINGTON — Today the most far-reaching Congressional bill to advance environmental justice was introduced, during a time of increasing political commitment to address how communities of color and people with limited financial means bear the...
Clean Energy Advocates Call on TVA to Halt Its Plans for New Gas, Align with Federal Goals
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Clean energy groups, in public comments submitted on March 13, are calling on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to halt its plans for a massive build-out of gas-fired power plants that are...
Court Finds North Carolina’s Denial of Mountain Valley Pipeline Permit Consistent with Clean Water Act
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decided that the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality complied with the Clean Water Act and state water quality laws in denying...
Report by Duke and UNC Shows Cost-Effective Approach to Reducing Carbon
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — According to a report released today by Duke University and the University of North Carolina, setting a declining cap on carbon pollution from power plants and joining a cooperative effort with...
Active Energy Sued for Illegal Pollution of North Carolina’s Lumber River from Toxic Site
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — On behalf of Winyah Rivers Alliance, the Southern Environmental Law Center today sued to stop Active Energy Renewable Power and Lumberton Energy Holdings— subsidiaries of the U.K. company, Active Energy Group—from...
Hopes for Action on PFAS, Water Protections, Coal Ash and Climate Change with Regan EPA Leadership
WASHINGTON — The Southern Environmental Law Center released the following statement by Derb Carter, director of the North Carolina offices of the Southern Environmental Law Center, regarding the expected confirmation of Michael Regan, former Secretary...