Press Releases
Southern Environmental Law Center names Mary Maclean Asbill new director of North Carolina offices
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Southern Environmental Law Center named longtime senior attorney Mary Maclean Asbill its new North Carolina offices director to lead its legal and policy work throughout the st...
SELC statement on victory for environmental justice in denial of Lambert Compressor Station permit
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Today the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board denied a permit for the Lambert Compressor Station, which would have supported a proposed extension of the Mountain Valley Pipeline...
New solar net-metering proposal ensures customer benefits while improving grid
RALEIGH, N.C. – Today, solar business and clean energy advocates, including North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA), the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), Sunrun, and the South...
EPA proposes reversing harmful Trump rule that stripped protections from many waterways
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—The Southern Environmental Law Center released the following statement regarding EPA’s announcement today of a draft rule to reverse a harmful, destructive rule by the Trump administ...
Conservation groups secure DEQ investigation into toxic 1,4-dioxane pollution in Cape Fear and Haw watersheds in North Carolina
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— The Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of the Haw River Assembly, and the City of Fayetteville today reached a settlement with the City of Greensboro and North Carolina reg...
2021 trends making and braking rooftop solar in the South
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Today the Southern Environmental Law Center announced its annual Solar “Makers” and “Brakers” — a list of policies that are significantly impacting rooftop solar growth across t...
South DeKalb communities prevail against efforts to silence opposition to solid waste handling facility
STONECREST, Ga.—A DeKalb County Superior Court has ruled in favor of Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment (CHASE) by striking Metro Green’s meritless claims against the group, holding that they...
SELC statement on Dominion Energy’s offshore wind filing
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Today Dominion Energy filed an application with Virginia’s State Corporation Commission to construct a 2.6 gigawatt offshore wind project off the coast of Virginia.
Bias-Free Judiciary, Transparency Sought in N.C. Supreme Court as Voting Rights Cases Continue
RALEIGH, N.C. – The North Carolina NAACP today filed a brief in response to the North Carolina Supreme Court’s request for guidance on how it should decide issues related to judicial recusal and disqu...
State-sanctioned horseshoe crab confinement threatens shorebirds
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A group of conservationists is preparing to sue the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Charles River Laboratories for penning horseshoe crabs in manmade ponds for an...