Taxonomy Archives: North Carolina

Feds gut cornerstone environmental protection

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 negoti...

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 ...

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 sta...

Agreement allows Roxboro residents to breathe cleaner air

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

Reminder of hope for endangered wild red wolves

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...

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 contes...