Southern Environmental Law Center

Virginia Legislation Sets New Clean Energy Standard

Commonwealth maps out path to cutting carbon and shifting to renewable energy

Project Leader

Will Cleveland

From the Steps of the Supreme Court

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Permit before Our Nation's Highest Court

EPA puts nation’s clean water at risk

New rule cuts protections for nearly all of U.S. wetlands and many other upstream waters

Project Leader

Blan Holman

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EPA Significantly Relaxes Rules for Polluters Amid Public Health Crisis

Proposed Virginia Power Plant Attempts to Skirt Environmental Justice Concerns

Administration Pushes Ahead With Rollback Weakening Protections for Migratory Birds

Groups File Lawsuit Against Frontier Logistics Over Plastic Pollution

Dominion Energy Agrees to Pay $1.4 Million Fine Years After Saying its Toxic Water Dump Was Legal

Virginia utility proposes pump station on sacred Monacan Indian Nation site

Virginia Lawmakers Ban Fracking East of I-95

Company Withdraws Plans to Inject Wastewater into Memphis’ Drinking Water Source

Judge: FOIA delay “incomprehensible,” but not a reason to keep open comment period

Virginia leaps ahead with South’s most progressive energy legislation

SELC calls on FAA to start new review of flawed spaceport

Solar jobs are booming nationwide—and are still on the rise

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SELC Responds to the Trump Administration

Carbon cap-and-trade: A simple and proven climate solution for Virginia

Attorneys: Nate Benforado

Pollution from Industrial Animal Operations

Attorneys: Blakely Hildebrand, Geoff Gisler, Chandra Taylor, Jean Zhuang

Fighting Unnecessary Interstate 73

Attorneys: Catherine Wannamaker, Christopher K. DeScherer

Protecting Our Clean Water

Attorneys: Blan Holman, Geoff Gisler, Bill Sapp, Frank Holleman, Keith Johnston, Jonathan Gendzier, Mark Sabath, Kelly Moser

A More Equitable Energy Future for Georgia

Attorneys: Kurt Ebersbach, Jill Kysor, Stacy Shelton

Solar Initiative

Attorneys: Lauren J. Bowen, David Neal, Blan Holman, Gudrun Thompson, Kurt Ebersbach, Jill Kysor, Christina Andreen Tidwell, Amanda Garcia, 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, 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, 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 Tidwell, Sarah Stokes

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2020 Reed Environmental Writing Awards Announced

Learn more about columnist Margaret Renkl's memoir Late Migrations and reporter Megan Mahyew Berman's travels through the South reporting for The Guardian. Learn More »

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Winter Newsletter 2019/20

  • Clean Water Act on the Ground
  • Coal Company Wants to Mine Protected Lands on Cumberland Plateau
  • Union Hill's Day in Court
  • North Carolina Advancing Toward Quick Action on Strong Climate Change Plan

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