Taxonomy Archives: North Carolina
SELC Receives Grant from Louis Bacon’s Orton Foundation
Chapel Hill, N.C.— At a time of aggressive rollbacks of state environmental protections, The Orton Foundation, the North Carolina affiliate of Louis Bacon’s Moore Charitable Foundation, has awarded th...
Winners of SELC Writing Award Reveal Our Bond with the Natural World
The Southern Environmental Law Center will present its annual Reed Environmental Writing Awards on March 18 during the Virginia Festival of the Book.
SELC op-ed: On anniversary of coal ash spill, N.C. officials flip-flopping on risk assessments
South Carolina Groundwater Contamination Plummets after Coal Ash Removal
Chapel Hill, N.C.- According to a January 29, 2016 report, groundwater contamination has dramatically declined along the Catawba-Wateree River after coal ash removal by South Carolina utility South Ca...
N.C. unwisely looking to fit dirty fuels into clean energy standards
South Carolina Coal Ash Removal Ahead of Schedule While North Carolina Stalls
Chapel Hill, N.C.-While Duke Energy stalls on moving ash at 7 of 14 unlined, leaking coal ash sites across North Carolina, S.C. utility Santee Cooper reports it has removed one-third of the coal ash f...