Press Releases
SELC celebrates withdrawal of dirty side deal
WASHINGTON – Today, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin withdrew his effort to use a must-pass government funding bill as a vehicle to weaken environmental protections and disempower frontline communities. This controversial legislation would have overhauled...
Conservation groups win lawsuit challenging elimination of critical North Carolina protections for sea turtles and fish
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — In a new ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Cape Fear River Watch, North Carolina Wildlife Federation, and Defenders of Wildlife, represented by...
Mobile Baykeeper, SELC sue Alabama Power to stop continued coal ash pollution in Mobile-Tensaw River Delta
MOBILE, Ala. — Today, on behalf of Mobile Baykeeper, the Southern Environmental Law Center and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama Richard Moore filed a lawsuit against Alabama...
SELC statement on draft permitting bill
WASHINGTON — Today, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin unveiled a proposed permitting bill that would weaken longstanding environmental protections to fast track natural gas pipelines including the Mountain Valley Pipeline and other fossil fuel projects,...
Comments by conservation groups and North Carolina residents lead to strongest limits on PFAS water pollution nationwide
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Cape Fear River Watch and the Southern Environmental Law Center said that the final permit just issued for a new Chemours’ groundwater treatment system by the North Carolina Department...
Congressional bill would add protections for landowners in the path of interstate natural gas pipelines
WASHINGTON — Today Virginia Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner introduced a bill — the Pipeline Fairness, Transparency, and Responsible Development Act — to protect landowners’ rights in the federal permitting process for gas pipelines. These...
Satilla Riverkeeper joins Brantley County Commissioners in opposition to unlawful landfill
ATLANTA — On Sept. 7, Satilla Riverkeeper and the Southern Environmental Law Center filed an amicus brief in the Office of State Administrative Hearings supporting the Board of Commissioners of Brantley...
SELC, One Hundred Miles fight efforts to continue keeping spaceport dangers concealed from the public
WOODBINE, Ga. — Last week, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of One Hundred Miles, filed a motion to lift the stay in One Hundred Miles’ lawsuit against Camden County and...
Youngkin administration lacks authority to end Virginia’s participation in RGGI
RICHMOND, Va. — Today Acting Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources Travis Voyles announced the Youngkin administration’s intent to file a Notice of Intended Regulatory Action, beginning a process that would end Virginia’s participation in...
Georgia court order confirms predominantly Black community’s triumph over solid waste handling facility
ATLANTA — In a victory for Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment and the City of Stonecrest, a judge in the Superior Court of DeKalb County has ruled in an...