One impact of the Trump administration’s cutting of protections under the Clean Water Act is a massive mine’s plans to destroy nearly 400 acres o...
A state court just approved an agreement detailing the next steps under a consent order SELC negotiated to stop Chemours from discharging 99 perc...
SELC just challenged in federal court a Trump administration rollback of clean water protections that sharply curtails the ability of states and...
Attorneys reached an agreement today on the details of next steps under a consent order with the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality and Che...
UPDATE (7/21/20) — A coalition of outdoor and sporting groups recently supported our lawsuit, filing an amicus brief decrying this rollback of cl...
Six former senior government officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army today condemned the Trump adm...
As communities across the country respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
Chemours’ cleanup plan does not even attempt to comply with state law or the consent order it agreed to, and would leave highly contaminated grou...
Senior Attorney Blan Holman, leader of SELC’s Clean Water Defense Initiative, is first and foremost a South Carolinian. In this op-ed published i...
In the wake of the new definitions from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that drastically reduce which waterways receive federal protecti...
Residents of the community surrounding North Carolina’s Badin Lake celebrated in June when SELC negotiated a settlement requiring a former alumin...
As the current administration’s assault on clean water protections continues to make international headlines, SELC’s own Senior Attorney Geoff Gi...
