Southern Environmental Law Center

SELC Responds to the Trump Administration

SELC is defending the fundamental laws and policies that have been put in place to safeguard the quality of our air, water, and natural treasures.

Repeal of Clean Power Plan puts coal profits ahead of health

The announcement, cheered by coal executives & lobbyists, comes as communities across the South have been battered this year with droughts, flooding, heat waves & hurricanes.

Trump attack on nation’s clean water protections illegal

Favorite fishing spots, crucial wetlands, and drinking water sources could lose important protections under the Trump administration’s repeal of the Clean Water Rule.

Introducing InThePath.org

Stories on the human costs of a natural gas pipeline

Newsfeed View All »

SELC op-ed: Memphis aquifer belongs to the public, not TVA

45 years of protection under the Clean Water Act

Alabama voters want action on state water plan

Breaking: FERC approves contested pipeline permits

Southern Exposure starts next chapter

Maps released by Duke Energy outline extent of damage if coal ash storage fails again

SELC op-ed: Atlanta’s voice needed to fight offshore drilling

Repeal of Clean Power Plan puts coal profits ahead of health, communities

Your iPhone just made a multi-billion dollar interstate project obsolete

SELC, Waterkeeper reach settlement in North Carolina Public Records Act case

Dominion Energy’s contrived need for natural gas on display again

Duke Energy coal ash pollution in N.C. piedmont prompts citizens’ step toward federal court

Power of the Law: Guarding our health and environment in these challenging times

SELC believes that everyone in this region deserves to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live in a healthy environment. This nonprofit organization gets consistently impressive results because we know how to work effectively in all three branches of government—and at the national, regional, state, and local levels—to create, strengthen, and enforce the laws and policies that determine the beauty and health of our environment.  

Our States

Charity Navigator

Donate

Priority Projects

SELC Responds to the Trump Administration

Solar Initiative

Attorneys: Katie Chiles Ottenweller, Lauren J. Bowen, David Neal, Blan Holman, Gudrun Thompson, Kurt Ebersbach, Peter Stein, Jill Kysor, Christina Andreen

Offshore Drilling

Attorneys: Sierra Weaver, Christopher K. DeScherer, Deborah M. Murray, Bill Sapp, Nat Mund, Derb S. Carter, Jr., Catherine Wannamaker, Mary Maclean Asbill, Brooks Rainey Pearson, Nadia Luhr, Blakely Hildebrand

Risky and Unnecessary Natural Gas Pipelines Threaten Our Region

Attorneys: Greg Buppert, Gudrun Thompson, David Neal, Charmayne Staloff

Protecting Our Southern Appalachian National Forests

Attorneys: Amelia Burnette, D.J. Gerken, David W. Carr, Jr., Sam Evans, Patrick Hunter

Paving through the Croatan National Forest

Attorneys: Geoff Gisler, Kym Hunter, Nadia Luhr

World’s Only Wild Red Wolves in Jeopardy

Attorneys: Sierra Weaver, Derb S. Carter, Jr., Ramona McGee

Coal Mining: A Threat to Alabama Waters

Attorneys: Catherine Wannamaker, April Lipscomb, Barry Brock

Fracking in the Southeast

Attorneys: Mary Maclean Asbill, Greg Buppert, Kristin Davis, Nat Mund, Brooks Rainey Pearson, Gil Rogers, April Lipscomb

Coal Ash

Attorneys: Frank Holleman, John Suttles, Beth Alexander, D.J. Gerken, Greg Buppert, Deborah M. Murray, Nick Torrey, Myra Blake, Chandra Taylor, Amelia Burnette, Patrick Hunter, Jonathan Gendzier, Chris Bowers, Kurt Ebersbach, Keith Johnston, Leslie Griffith, Thomas Lodwick, Nate Benforado

Georgia Coastal Initiative

Attorneys: Bill Sapp, Megan Hinkle Huynh, April Lipscomb, Hutton Brown

Birmingham, Alabama: Northern Beltline

Attorneys: Gil Rogers, Sarah Stokes

View All Priority Projects

Special Announcement

© Valley Conservation Council

Virginia Office Director Honored for Conservation Efforts

Valley Conservation Council, based in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, recently named Sarah Francisco, Director of SELC’s Virginia office, its Conservator of the Year for 2017. Learn More »

Fall Newsletter 2017

  • SELC Defends the Clean Water Act
  • The Coast Has Spoken Again
  • SELC Challenges Trump Rollback of Climate Progress
  • Opposing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

Be the first to know

SELC is in the middle of the most important environmental issues playing out in your state—and throughout the Southeast. Get an insider’s perspective through SELC’s Facebook page and Twitter feed.