Southern Environmental Law Center

The end of SELC’s beginning—and the beginning of our future

SELC celebrates Rick’s 33-year Founder’s legacy and welcomes Jeff as our new Executive Director.

Virginia leaps forward on coal ash

New law requires excavation of all coal ash ponds in Chesapeake Bay watershed

Study: Southerners love—and want more—wilderness

New study finds overwhelming support for Southern Appalachian Wilderness.

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Alabama lawmakers strengthen ALDOT accountability as part of gas tax increase

Groups challenge Interior’s failure to disclose public information

Virginia leaps forward on coal ash

“We Know How To Do This.”

It’s “Sunshine Week,” but SELC focus on public records is year-round

Clean Water Act proposal drastically cuts protections against pollution

Local residents, hunters, fishermen outraged by approval of $500M N.C. bridge

Duke Energy overlooks clean energy opportunities in latest plan

Kingston coal ash disaster still reverberates 10 years later

Clean water prevails in agreement with Alabama sewage treatment plant

Solar works for South Carolina

SELC announces winners of the 2019 Reed Environmental Writing Awards

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.  

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SELC Responds to the Trump Administration

Fighting Unnecessary Interstate 73

Attorneys: Catherine Wannamaker, Christopher K. DeScherer

Protecting Our Clean Water

Attorneys: Blan Holman, Geoff Gisler, Bill Sapp, Frank Holleman, Anne Passino, Christina Reichert, Christopher K. DeScherer, Elizabeth Jones, Keith Johnston, Jonathan Gendzier, Mark Sabath, Kelly Moser

Plant Vogtle Nuclear Expansion

Attorneys: Kurt Ebersbach, Jill Kysor, Stacy Shelton

Solar Initiative

Attorneys: Lauren J. Bowen, David Neal, Blan Holman, Gudrun Thompson, Kurt Ebersbach, Peter Stein, Jill Kysor, Christina Andreen, Amanda Garcia, Elizabeth Jones, Hannah Coman, Will Cleveland

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, Blakely Hildebrand

Risky and Unnecessary Natural Gas Pipelines Threaten Our Region

Attorneys: Greg Buppert, Gudrun Thompson, David Neal, Charmayne Staloff, D.J. Gerken, Amelia Burnette, Patrick Hunter, Jonathan Gendzier, Mark Sabath, Emily Wyche

Protecting Our Southern Appalachian National Forests

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

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, Barry Brock, Christina Andreen, Sarah Stokes

Fracking in the Southeast

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

Coal Ash

Attorneys: Frank Holleman, John Suttles, D.J. Gerken, Greg Buppert, Deborah M. Murray, Nick Torrey, Amelia Burnette, Patrick Hunter, Jonathan Gendzier, Chris Bowers, Kurt Ebersbach, Keith Johnston, Leslie Griffith, Nate Benforado, Amanda Garcia, Anne Passino, Christina Reichert, Christina Andreen

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Special Announcement

SELC announces winners of the 2019 Reed Environmental Writing Awards

The Southern Environmental Law Center has announced the winners of the 2019 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Awards, to be presented during this year’s Virginia Festival of the Book. Learn More »

Winter Newsletter 2018

  • The Atlantic Coast Pipeline
  • SELC Applauds Forest Service
  • Endangered Species, Endangered Protections
  • 2018 State of Solar in the South

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