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Statement in Response to Enviva’s Announcement of The Enviva Conservation Fund
For the past 3 years, Dogwood Alliance, NRDC, and SELC have sounded the alarm about the widespread, destructive impacts to our forests, communities and climate caused by the rapidly expanding wood pellet industry.
Community Groups Applaud Court Decision to Uphold Uranium Mining Ban
Danville, VA—Today the U.S. District Court in Danville, VA tossed out the Virginia Uranium, Inc. (VUI) lawsuit challenging the legality of Virginia’s 33-year-old statutory ban on uranium mining. The decision affirmed the state’s authority to...
Exempting Toxic Air Polluters Raises Cumulative Health and Cancer Risks for NC Families
Chapel Hill, N.C.- The NC Department of Environmental Quality’s proposal to exempt 1,200 emitters of dangerous pollutants from limits and reporting requirements across the state ignores the local and cumulative impacts from more toxic pollution.
Politics are Frustrating Good Planning and Long-term Solutions for I-66
Charlottesville, VA- The swirling and politicized debate over what to do with I-66 is frustrating good planning and long-term solutions,” said Stewart Schwartz, Executive Director of the Coalition for Smarter Growth. “On the one hand,...
U. S. FWS to Court for Failures to Protect the World’s Only Red Wolves
Chapel Hill, N.C.- Conservation groups filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for its failure to protect the world’s only...
Court rejects Dominion’s motion to dismiss coal ash lawsuit
Charlottesville, VA- Last Friday the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied Dominion Virginia Power’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Sierra Club, over...
Groups Challenge Corps’ Lenient Approach to Stream Filling in Black Warrior River Basin
Birmingham, AL–Conservation groups are challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of a permit authorizing coal mining material to be dumped into streams that feed into the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River.
Test results confirm TVA’s coal ash leaking into Cumberland River and impacting drinking water
Nashville, TN—Today Southern Environmental Law Center, Tennessee Clean Water Network, and Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association released test results confirming that sediment in the Cumberland River near Tennessee Valley Authority’s Gallatin Fossil Plant is polluted with...
Proposed Enviva Wood Pellet Plant Raises Concerns of Increasing Carbon Emissions
Chapel Hill, N.C.- A proposed Enviva facility that would burn wood biomass to manufacture wood pellets for export to Europe violates air quality regulations by failing to minimize harmful carbon pollution...
New Analysis from TVA Confirms Solar Has Value, But Shortchanges the Amount
Nashville, TN—Today TVA released its “Distributed Generation- Integrated Value” report, the result of a year-long stakeholder process intended to calculate the economic value that solar power provides to the TVA grid. The report confirms that...