The Environmental Protection Agency’s top official, Administrator Scott Pruitt, convened a meeting with corporate lobbyists and hand-chosen elected officials today in Orangeburg, S.C., to garner support for the agency’s misguided...
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State: South Carolina
Filed Under:
Federal policy,
Water quality
SELC and nearly 30 conservation organizations across the southeast are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to abandon its proposal to indefinitely delay important federal limits on harmful coal ash pollution.
SELC submitte...
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Filed Under:
Coal ash,
Federal policy,
Water quality
“These actions aren’t slight reductions to a faceless agency or well-intentioned efforts to curb pointless regulations; they will have real effects on the ground in Georgia communities. ”
Gil Rogers, Director of SELC’s Georgia and Alabama offices, in a guest column for the Saporta Report
SELC and more than 75 other environmental, conservation, and public advocacy groups that represent tens of thousands of Virginians have signed on to a letter urging the Commonwealth to require individual review under the Clean Wat...
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State: Virginia
Filed Under:
Natural gas,
Water quality
Yesterday the Trump administration announced it was repealing the Clean Water Rule in an attempt to scale back the waterways and wetlands that are protected from pollution by federal law.
Why is this important for water quality i...
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Filed Under:
Federal policy,
Water quality
SELC released the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to repeal the Clean Water Rule as a first step in dismantling water quality protections under the Clean Water Act.
“EPA’s proposal to resci...
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Filed Under:
Federal policy,
Water quality
“We cannot sacrifice the benefits the Clean Water Act has given us for the last four decades so that big-time polluters can boost profits by eliminating pollution controls.”
Patrick Hunter, SELC attorney
In good news for clean water, a federal court in Alabama has ruled that SELC and Coosa Riverkeeper can proceed with claims against the Oxford Tull C. Allen Wastewater Treatment Plant east of Birmingham.
In response to a motion to...
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State: Alabama
Filed Under:
Water quality
After SELC, on behalf of the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation and Clean Air Carolina, filed suit challenging Duke Energy’s requested permit to put more cancer-causing bromide pollution in North Carolina’s rivers and drinking water s...
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State: North Carolina
Filed Under:
Coal ash,
Water quality
SELC, on behalf of the Roanoke River Basin Association, today sent notice of its intent to enforce national standards of coal ash storage against Duke Energy’s proposed plan to keep its leaking, unlined coal ash pits at Duke Energ...
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State: North Carolina
Filed Under:
Coal ash,
Federal policy,
Water quality
