Press Releases
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...
SELC statement on repeal of narrowed habitat protections under the Endangered Species Act
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Today the Biden administration announced its proposal to rescind the Trump administration’s narrowed definition of ‘habitat’ under the Endangered Species Act.
New EPA GenX toxicity standard highlights need to regulate PFAS pollution as a class of chemicals
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—The Environmental Protection Agency's release today of its final human health toxicity assessment for GenX underscores the importance of regulating PFAS as a class of chemicals and t...
GASP, SELC challenge Bluestone Coke air pollution
BIRMINGHAM, Al. – A state circuit court has granted GASP and the Southern Environmental Law Center’s motion to intervene filed by the groups in order to stop ongoing air pollution violations at the Bl...