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Reed Environmental Writing Award announces 2025 call for nominations
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Today the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) announced a call for entries to the 2025 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award program. The Reed Award celebrates writers who achieve both...
Dominion fails to meet energy efficiency standard
RICHMOND, Va. – Yesterday, the State Corporation Commission (SCC) ruled that Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion) failed to comply with the energy efficiency standards established by the Virginia Clean Economy Act. This year’s case...
Charleston County sued for illegal ballot question on $5.4 billion tax
Ballot breaks laws guiding fair elections, misleads voters CHARLESTON, S.C. — Today, Mary Edna Fraser, Glenda Miller, and the Coastal Conversation League, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, W. Andrew Gowder, Jr., and W.
Commercial Fishermen and Landowners Challenge FERC’s Approval of CP2 LNG Project
WASHINGTON – Today, the Niskanen Center, in partnership with the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of For a Better Bayou, Fishermen Involved in Sustaining Our Heritage and other impacted commercial fishermen and landowners, filed...
Southern Leaders receive $530 million in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants to curb pollution and tackle climate change.
WASHINGTON – Today, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virgina won Climate Pollution Reduction grants from the Environmental Protection Agency in a competitive grant program under the landmark Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
SELC files petition with EPA raising concerns about air pollution permit issued to AdvanSix plant in Hopewell
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Southern Environmental Law Center last week formally petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to object to the Title V permit issued to AdvanSix Resins and Chemicals LLC, a chemical manufacturing plant in...
Conservation groups petition EPA to revoke Georgia’s CCR Permit Program
ATLANTA — Today the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Coosa River Basin Initiative, Altamaha Riverkeeper, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, the Sierra Club and others, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
Groups sue DES over illegal rules for major water withdrawals
Loophole allows removal of all water from rivers CHARLESTON, S.C. — Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in South Carolina state court against the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services challenging the agency’s...
Settlement lowers proposed SC Dominion Energy bill increase
Settlement to increase low-income energy efficiency program spending CAYCE, S.C. — Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Coastal Conservation League and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, joined a settlement in the...
Nearly half of Memphis families face high energy burdens, according to new report
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A new study shows that more than 48 percent of Memphians face high energy burdens, meaning a larger percent of their income goes to paying their power bill. Energy burden measures...