Taxonomy Archives: North Carolina

Senior Attorney Kym Hunter to serve on new transportation plan advisory board

Groups tell Biden Administration: Let Older Trees Grow

Oral Arguments at NC Supreme Court Monday, February 14th in NC NAACP v. Moore: Racially Gerrymandered Legislature in 2018 Did Not Have Authority to Change NC’s Constitution

Community groups appeal administrative law judge Donald van der Vaart’s decision to side with Smithfield on water pollution

Groups seek to stop Active Energy’s illegal PFAS pollution of North Carolina’s Lumber River

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 r...

Draft North Carolina General Permit for animal waste to gas projects curtails public input and fails to protect communities or the environment

EPA investigates discriminatory harm from NC hog operations

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...

Administrative Law Judge Donald van der Vaart sides with Smithfield-owned hog operations on water pollution

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Yesterday the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings upheld the state’s decision allowing Smithfield-owned hog operations to use giant pits of untreated hog feces and uri...