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U.S. Senate bill would reduce toxic PFAS for military members, firefighters, and communities
WASHINGTON— The Department of Defense PFAS Discharge Prevention Act introduced yesterday in the U.S. Senate would help protect military members, veterans, firefighters, and families from toxic PFAS pollution, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center.
Experts say Dominion fails to prove reliability need for Chesterfield gas plant
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Today, on behalf of Appalachian Voices, Mothers Out Front, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed testimony from Telos Energy before the...
FEMA Act introduces important reforms for disaster recovery
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today a bipartisan bill seeking important improvements to FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) and Ranking...
Trump’s “AI Action Plan” would let billionaire tech companies steamroll local communities
WASHINGTON – The White House “AI Action Plan” goes dangerously overboard in its efforts to limit oversight of the artificial intelligence industry, especially when it comes to data centers that use tremendous amounts of energy...
Bird sanctuary protected from planned toxic chemical experiment
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A federal court ruled in favor of Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club in a lawsuit filed by the Southern Environmental Law Center challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s...
SELC, partners file challenge against FERC’s unlawful, blanket suspension of own construction regulation
WASHINGTON – A coalition of public interest groups, landowners, and fishermen filed a challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ‘waiver order’ that allows FERC to avoid its own regulations for construction of pipelines...
Groups appeal permit for xAI’s South Memphis data center, decisions around unpermitted methane gas turbines
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On Wednesday, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the NAACP and Young, Gifted & Green, filed an appeal with the Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board, challenging...
Commission “accepts” Dominion’s long-term plan as “legally sufficient” but will require improvements moving forward
RICHMOND, VA. — Late yesterday, the State Corporation Commission (SCC) accepted Dominion Energy’s long term power plan (Integrated Resource Plan, or “IRP”) as legally sufficient, while noting that such acceptance does not indicate approval of...
Tennessee Valley Authority scraps plan for rural Cheatham County gas plant
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority is no longer pursuing plans to build a new methane gas plant and pipeline in rural Cheatham County, with the federal utility announcing that the gas plant is...
Georgia Public Service Commission approves astonishing amount of fossil fuel energy capacity on pledge data center boom will come
ATLANTA— This morning, the Georgia Public Service Commission voted to approve Georgia Power’s long term energy plan that threatens to roll back promised relief for billpayers and allows the utility to build or buy an...