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Court Rules for Rare Wild Red Wolves against USFWS
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled in a case brought by the Southern Environmental Law Center that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must develop a plan...
GASP, SELC Reach Settlement Agreement with Drummond and Regulators to Address ABC Coke Pollution
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — GASP and the Southern Environmental Law Center have made significant improvements to a consent decree to address ABC Coke’s illegal emissions of benzene and the impacts on communities around northeast Birmingham and...
SELC Statement on Rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Southern Environmental Law Center released the following statement by Executive Director Jeff Gleason in response to President Biden’s Executive Order to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and start undoing other Trump...
North Carolina to Consider Climate Change Solution as Communities Feel Impacts
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—On behalf of Clean Air Carolina and the North Carolina Coastal Federation, the Southern Environmental Law Center today filed a petition for rulemaking with the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission...
Game changing bills released to rein in Dominion energy bills
RICHMOND, Va. — A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are proposing a package of bills aimed at ending decades of overcharging by Virginia’s monopoly electric company Dominion. In 2020, Virginia passed transformative energy legislation designed to...
Groups Appeal Alabama Public Service Commission’s Approval of $1+ Billion Gas Expansion
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Energy Alabama, GASP, and the Southern Environmental Law Center are appealing the Public Service Commission’s approval of Alabama Power’s petition for its single largest capacity increase ever, with a price tag for...
New bill puts Virginia on the road to cleaner air
RICHMOND, Va. — Today, Delegate Lamont Bagby put forth a bill to reduce car pollution and make electric vehicles more accessible in Virginia.
SELC seeks to halt Trump administration’s parting shot at national forests
BIG STONE GAP, Va. — A lawsuit filed today seeks to reverse the Trump administration’s elimination of critical safeguards that have protected national forests from unneeded, ill-conceived and destructive logging, road building, and utility right-of-way projects.
NCDEQ Air Permit for Smithfield-Dominion Biogas Facility
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following statement from Blakely Hildebrand, an attorney at the center, regarding the air permit for a large-scale Align RNG biogas facility issued by the North...
Court Allows CHASE, SELC to Join Suit against Metro Green
STONECREST, Ga. — Last week a DeKalb County Superior Court granted Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment’s (CHASE) motion to intervene in the ongoing challenge against Metro Green Recycling.