Southern Environmental Law Center

New “Stories of Solar” campaign features families and businesses spreading solar across the South

SELC endorses plan for improved transit in Wake County, N.C.

Improved and expanded bus service is one of several goals of the Moving Wake County Forward referendum, which will be on ballots around Raleigh this November.

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Kym Hunter

NCDEQ proposes permitting leaks of coal ash into rivers

Permits now available for public comment would allow leaks of coal ash-polluted wastewater at three Duke Energy sites into the Roanoke and Dan Rivers.

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Frank Holleman

Celebrating 5 years of storytelling

With a premiere scheduled for September 8 in Birmingham, the Southern Exposure film fellowship will soon give audiences their first look at this year’s collection of films.

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Clean Power Plan has its day in court

Holleman honored

Testing shows high levels of arsenic in water next to leaking, unlined N.C. coal ash pits

Winner of SELC’s Phil Reed Writing Award receives more national recognition

Coal ash pollution found at popular James River park

Agency proposes reversing progress to protect endangered wild red wolves

New report shows demand doesn’t justify new natural gas pipelines

Settlement to offset harm from Monroe Bypass through land conservation, water quality protections

SELC endorses plan for improved transit in Wake County, N.C.

NCDEQ proposes permitting Duke Energy’s leaks of coal ash polluted wastewater into rivers

Ruling could open the door for Virginia’s solar market

Budget overruns at nuclear plant squeezing S.C. customers; energy efficiency offers alternative

30 years of protecting the South’s environment through the Power of the Law

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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Coal Mining: A Threat to Alabama Waters

Attorneys: Catherine Wannamaker, April Lipscomb, Barry Brock

Fracking in the Southeast

Attorneys: Sarah A. Francisco, Mary Maclean Asbill, Greg Buppert, Anne Davis, Kristin Davis, Nat Mund, Brooks Pearson, Gil Rogers

Solar Initiative

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

Coal Ash

Attorneys: Frank Holleman, John Suttles, Beth Alexander, D.J. Gerken, Greg Buppert, Deborah M. Murray, Brad McLane, Nick Torrey, Myra Blake, Chandra Taylor, Anne Davis, Patrick Hunter, Jonathan Gendzier

Proposed Natural Gas Pipelines Threaten Scenic Western Virginia

Attorneys: Greg Buppert, Sarah A. Francisco

Birmingham, Alabama: Northern Beltline

Attorneys: Gil Rogers, Sarah Stokes

Uranium Mining - A Risky Experiment

I-66 Widening in Northern Virginia

Attorneys: Morgan W. Butler, Trip Pollard

Restoring the Harpeth River

Attorneys: Anne Davis, Anne Passino

Biomass Energy in the South

Attorneys: David W. Carr, Jr., Derb S. Carter, Jr., Frank Rambo

Offshore Oil Drilling

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

Reed Environmental Writing Award

The Reed Environmental Writing Award is given annually for published works in two categories, Non-fiction Book and Journalism, and is judged by some of the top environmental writers, journalists and activists of our time. Learn More

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Winner of SELC’s Phil Reed Writing Award receives more national recognition

Deborah Cramer’s The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, An Ancient Crab, and An Epic Journey, recently won the Best Book Award from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Learn More »

Summer Newsletter 2016

  • SELC Celebrated Back to Back Wins Protecting Our Coast
  • Landmark Settlement Protects Tennessee's Harpeth River
  • Green Diamond Deal Drowned
  • SELC Helps to Shed Daylight on Transportation Project Selection

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