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PSC unanimously votes to approve Georgia Power’s data center plan without sufficient customer protections
ATLANTA — Today the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) unanimously voted to approve a historic request by Georgia Power to acquire nearly 10 gigawatts (GW) of new energy capacity to meet the needs of data centers...
Virginia Natural Gas rate hike approved despite disproportionate harm to low-income ratepayers
RICHMOND, Va. – This week the State Corporation Commission approved another utility rate hike, this time for gas distribution company Virginia Natural Gas (VNG). VNG requested the rate increase (its third in the last six years)...
SPEED Act vote is another attempt to give polluters a free pass
WASHINGTON- The House vote to approve the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act is another attack on bedrock environmental laws that give people in the South a voice to provide input into projects that could affect them and a legal path to...
Utilities regulator will reconsider approval of Dominion’s Chesterfield CPCN
RICHMOND, Va. — This week the State Corporation Commission granted reconsideration of the final order it issued previously granting Dominion Energy a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) for the utility’s proposed gas plant in Chesterfield. ...
Bill that would ‘annihilate’ wildlife conservation efforts advances to U.S. House floor
WASHINGTON-- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Natural Resources Committee voted to send a reckless bill to the full House that would gut critical Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for thousands of threatened and endangered...
New report exposes inflated load growth projections from data centers in the Southeast
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report released today by Greenlink Analytics and Science for Georgia, commissioned by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), finds that energy load growth attributed to...
Santee Cooper and Dominion file for Canadys gas plant approval
Environmental groups intervene at Public Service Commission to raise concerns CHARLESTON, SC — Yesterday, Santee Cooper and Dominion Energy South Carolina applied for approval for their joint Canadys gas plant at the South Carolina Public...
After lawsuit, U.S. Forest Service stops logging project in Nolichucky River Gorge
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Just days after a coalition of conservation groups sued the Forest Service over an unlawful logging operation in North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest, the loggers removed their equipment from the area and the Forest Service canceled the timber contract. The move is a significant win for North...
DOJ civil rights protection authority gutted
WASHINGTON — This week the current administration continued dismantling bedrock civil rights and environmental justice protections as it issued a final rule, without public comment, rescinding U.S. Department of Justice disparate impact rules. A disparate impact occurs when a policy or action causes a disproportionate and unjustified...
Conservation groups object to polluter-written PFAS and 1,4-dioxane rules
Timeline reveals origin of polluter-friendly PFAS & 1,4-dioxane rules proposed by North Carolina commission CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—The Southern Environmental Law Center today sent a letter to the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission on behalf...