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Recent Press Releases
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Conservation Groups Applaud Right-Sizing of Massive Mountain Highway in NC, TN
February 3, 2010The Departments of Transportation in Tennessee and North Carolina are now studying ways to complete the Corridor K project between Chattanooga and Asheville by improving existing roads instead of building stretches of new four-lane highway through mostly new terrain, a proposal which has drawn regionwide oppo
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Conservation Groups Cheer Settlement Ending Long Fight to Stop Road Through Great Smokies Park
February 2, 2010SELC joins conservation groups across the region in applauding the historic settlement that successfully ends the decades-long fight to stop a highway through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Conservation groups in court to save highly endangered whales
January 27, 2010Conservation groups today challenged the U.S. Navy’s decision to build its $100 million Undersea Warfare Training Range next to the only known calving ground for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
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