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Recent Press Releases
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Corps Not Exempt from Pollution Controls on Savannah Deepening Project
February 3, 2012The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to obtain a South Carolina pollution control permit for its controversial project to deepen the Savannah River, according to a lawsuit filed today in state court by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of Georgia and South Carolina conservation groups.
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Virginia Should Focus on Offshore Wind, Not Oil
February 2, 2012The Obama Administration today released the final environmental assessment clearing the way for leasing of federal offshore tracts for site assessment and location of commercial wind farms off the coast of Virginia and other mid-Atlantic states.
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Federal transportation bill would drive fiscal accountability and environmental protections into a ditch
February 1, 2012The House of Representatives majority leadership released a sweeping transportation bill yesterday that would upend long-accepted practices for how the nation's highways, bridges are planned and built, gutting basic environmental safeguards for air and water quality and green space, and deepening our dependence on oil.
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