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Havelock Bypass Suit Filed
Chapel Hill, N.C.—The Southern Environmental Law Center today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the planned construction of an unneeded, costly highway. The planned Havelock Bypass would cut through rare, century-old longleaf pine stands in eastern...
Conservation Groups Sue Kinder Morgan for Water Pollution from 2014 South Carolina Pipeline Spill
Charleston, S.C.-The Southern Environmental Law Center, representing Upstate Forever and Savannah Riverkeeper, today filed suit against Kinder Morgan for its illegal pollution...
Duke Energy Removes 650,000 Tons of Coal Ash from Banks of Saluda River in South Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C.-Under a settlement negotiated by the Southern Environmental Law Center, Duke Energy has removed over 650,000 tons of coal ash from unlined...
Gallatin Coal Ash Leaks are a Hidden Environmental Disaster
Nashville, TN- Eight years ago today, a breach at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant discharged more than a billion gallons of toxic coal ash...
Court Rules in Favor of Sea Island Groin Construction
Atlanta, GA-Conservation groups lost an appeal today in Fulton Co. Superior Court challenging the Georgia Shore Protection Committee’s issuance of a permit to Sea Island Acquisition LLC for construction of a groin in an ecologically-sensitive...
New Protections Place Atlantic Canyons Off-limits to Offshore Drilling
Charlottesville, VA- Today the Obama administration announced that it would permanently protect 3.8 million acres of the Atlantic Ocean from offshore oil and gas development...
Federal Court Declares $900M Garden Parkway Toll Highway Dead on Arrival
Chapel Hill, N.C. A ruling today by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on a legal challenge to the Garden Parkway, a proposed toll highway project near Charlotte, N.C., found it is not a viable...
New Draft EU Energy Policies Take Small Step to Limit Burning of Trees for Electricity
Washington, D.C.- Following Multi-Year Campaign, Environmental Groups See Potential in Fight to Protect Forests and Communities from Dirty Biomass; But is Now the Responsibility of the EU Parliament and Council to Strengthen the Commission’s Proposal...
Nashville Wildlife Rehabilitator on Compressor Battle: “We’re Fighting For Our Lives.”
Nashville, TN– Wildlife rehabilitator and Nashville singing star Lane Brody says if a noisy natural gas compressor is built near her charity’s property it likely would force her organization to move. Brody, the director of...
Administrative Court Allows Flooding of Blounts Creek with Mine Wastewater
Chapel Hill, N.C.- A state administrative court today upheld a state permit that allows a proposed Martin Marietta mine to flood a popular fishing creek in eastern North Carolina with wastewater from the mine.