Press Releases
Local and citizen groups object to DEQ’s flawed permit for $5.5 Billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Today more than a dozen groups asked North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality to withdraw a draft air permit for a large facility that would expose people living in the community to toxic air pollution.
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Decision Puts National Forests at Risk
SELC strongly opposes the U.S. Forest Service decision to approve the ACP, slated to cut through 600-miles including lands in the Appalachian Mountains and the George Washington and Monongahela National Forests.
Congaree Riverkeeper to sue over utility’s refusal to excavate coal tar from waterway
COLUMBIA, SC – Congaree Riverkeeper today filed a notice of intent to sue – the required precursor to a lawsuit – to halt SCE&G’s plans to cover acres of a toxic coal-tar plume with fabric, rather...
Groups Take Legal Action Against FERC on Atlantic Coast Pipeline
A coalition of affected landowners and conservation groups today filed a request for rehearing urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reconsider its approval of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a massive interstate gas pipeline that...
First county in Tidewater bans fracking
Charlottesville, VA— Richmond County’s unanimous vote to ban oil and gas drilling and fracking sends a clear message that counties have a strong interest in protecting their land and water from risky industry ventures. The decision...
Groups Intervene in Vogtle Cost Proceedings
In today’s opening hearing in Georgia Power Company’s 17th Semi-Annual Vogtle Construction Monitoring Report proceeding, groups are urging the PSC to reject the utility’s request for approval of its revised cost and schedule for two...
SELC: Congress Passes Bill Proposing to Treat Southeastern National Forests as Mere Crops
Washington, D.C. – The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) released the following statement on the so-called “Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017” (H.R. 2936). The legislation, which passed in the House late Wednesday, proposes to create...
Additions Proposed to Two Virginia Wilderness Areas
Charlottesville, VA—Senator Tim Kaine has introduced a bill, the Virginia Wilderness Additions Act of 2017, co-sponsored by Senator Mark Warner, that would protect an additional 5,600 acres of the George Washington National Forest in Virginia.
FERC Approves Unnecessary and Destructive Pipelines
Charlottesville, VA – Late Friday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued its permits for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Moutain Valley Pipeline projects. The Southern Environmental Law Center, which had petitioned FERC for an evidentiary heading...
After Groups’ Legal Action, Duke Energy Releases Dam Safety Information for NC Coal Ash Sites
Chapel Hill, N.C.- More than two weeks after local community groups notified Duke Energy that they planned to bring enforcement actions against it for withholding legally-required critical dam safety information for coal ash sites across...