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Conservation Groups Challenge Trump Administration’s Attack on the Power of States and Local Residents to Protect Clean Water
CHARLESTON, S.C.—Conservation groups today challenged in federal court a Trump administration rollback of clean water protections...
SELC Statement on EPA’s Feckless PFAS Action Plan
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following statement by Geoff Gisler, a senior attorney at the center who has fought for PFAS cleanup in North Carolina, regarding the EPA Administrator’s roundtable today...
SELC Challenges TVA’s Long-term Contract Decision
SELC is challenging in federal court the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) monumental decision to implement never-ending contracts designed to keep local power distributors captive customers of the federal utility forever.
Conservation Groups Reach Agreement for 99 Percent Reduction of Chemours’ GenX
On behalf of Cape Fear River Watch, the SELC today reached agreement on the details of next steps under a consent order with the N.C. DEQ and Chemours that requires the company to stop 99...
Conservation Groups Seek to Stop Wood Pellet Company’s Illegal Pollution of Lumber River
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—On behalf of Winyah Rivers Alliance, the Southern Environmental Law Center today notified Active Energy Renewable Power that the British-owned company must stop its unpermitted discharges of industrial stormwater into...
SELC seeks nominations for Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—The Southern Environmental Law Center is now accepting submissions for the 2021 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Awards.
Lawsuit: Government illegally “cut corners” to ram through NEPA changes
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — A group of 17 environmental organizations in a lawsuit today accused the government of racing through an industry-friendly rewrite of the National Environmental Policy Act by “cutting corners” and discarding decades...
YouGov poll: Just 23% of Britons believe burning wood for electricity should be classified as ‘renewable energy’
LONDON – A new online YouGov poll has found fewer than one in four Britons (23%) think electricity generated by burning wood from forests should be classified as ‘renewable energy,’. Additionally, 55% also disagreed with...
SELC Statement on U.S. House of Representatives Passing of the Great American Outdoors Act
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) released the following statement in response to the U.S. House of Representatives passing the Great American Outdoors Act.
Feds gut cornerstone environmental protection
ATLANTA, GA — The Trump administration in an announcement today hobbled the nation’s bedrock environmental protection, the National Environmental Policy Act, a law that has given marginalized communities a say in what happens to them...