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Transparency Needed as Southern Utilities Announce Secret Talks to Create Energy Market
Today some of the region’s largest utilities revealed they have for months been engaged in talks to set up a market to sell power to each other at the wholesale level. These behind-closed doors negotiations...
Abandoned ACP is the beginning of our clean energy future
This is a victory for all communities and natural areas in the path of the pipeline—countless farms, rugged national forests, thousands of rivers and streams, and historic African-American and Native American communities.
Dominion and Duke Energy Abandon Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Today, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced that they are canceling the $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Southern Environmental Law Center Senior Attorney Greg Buppert issued the following statement.
Flooding of Blounts Creek with Martin Marietta’s Mine Wastewater before N.C. Supreme Court
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— On behalf of Sound Rivers and the North Carolina Coastal Federation, the Southern Environmental Law Center today filed a petition with the North Carolina Supreme Court...
Atlantic Coast Pipeline confronts its expiration date
SELC, joined by partners at Appalachian Mountain Advocates, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and the law firm Johns & Counsel, opposed Dominion Energy and Duke Energy’s request for two additional years to build to build the...
Broken Ground Podcast Launches New Season: Navigating Sea Level Rise in the South
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Broken Ground, a podcast by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), launches its new season...
No more “free pass” for pipeline developers
Today the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ended the unjust practice of tolling orders by the FERC that allowed gas pipelines to move ahead with construction while preventing challengers from contesting the projects in...
Cut Carbon Not Forests: Hard-hitting Campaign Urges UK Policymakers to Build a True Clean Energy Economy and End Dirty Biomass Subsidies
LONDON – A coalition of environmental advocacy groups have launched Cut Carbon Not Forests, a hard-hitting campaign to expose the UK’s wasteful subsidies for companies that burn trees for electricity and to put pressure on policymakers...
Four Health and Medical Groups File Legal Action Defending Lifesaving Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Lung Association, American Public Health Association, and Physicians for Social Responsibility, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, filed a petition for jud...
SELC Statement on Senate Passing of The Great American Outdoors Act
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) released the following statement in response to the Senate passing the Great American Outdoors Act (S. 3422). The legislation, which passed 73 to 25, signals...