Press Releases
New Interactive Web Tool Gives Details About Southeast’s Toxic Coal Ash
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Appalachian Voices, Southern Environmental Law Center, and NC Conservation Network today launched the first-ever comprehensive online tool that allows Southerners to find specific information about coal ash impoundments near...
Groups Demand Closer Scrutiny of Proposed $1 Billion Upgrades to Gallatin Coal Plant
In response to costly planned upgrades that would allow the aging Gallatin Coal Plant to keep operating, environmental groups are calling on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to consider less expensive, cleaner, and more efficient...
Press Statement on Behalf of the Keep The Ban Coalition on Release of the 2012 Uranium Working Group
Today the Governor's internal Uranium Working Group released its report on what regulations in Virginia might look like if the General Assembly votes to repeal the state's longstanding ban on uranium mining.
Conservationists celebrate landmark offshore wind lease in Virginia, warn that Congress must act fast on tax credits
Conservation groups praised the Obama Administration’s announcement today of a lease sale for the offshore wind energy area 23.5 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach...
18th Annual Nature Writing Contest Now Underway
The Southern Environmental Law Center is now accepting submissions for its annual Reed Environmental Writing Award.
Key Virginia Transportation Law Needs Overhaul
A new report on Virginia’s Public-Private Transportation Act (PPTA), under which billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent and decades of substantial tolls imposed, warns that the Act lacks adequate safeguards to protect the public...
Court Halts N.C. Spotlighting of Coyotes after 4th Endangered Red Wolf Shot
After four endangered wolves were killed, a North Carolina court today granted conservation groups’ request to stop a temporary state rule that allows spotlight hunting of coyotes at night.
S.C. Supreme Court Rules DHEC Overstepped Authority
The S.C. Supreme Court late Friday issued its decision in the Savannah Harbor deepening case. The court agreed with conservation groups that the S.C. Department of Health & Environmental Control Board overstepped its authority when...
Halt of N.C. Spotlighting of Coyotes Sought After Endangered Red Wolf Killed
Concerned groups asked a state court to stop spotlight hunting of coyotes at night in North Carolina—including the area inhabited by the world’s only wild population of about 100 red wolves—after one or more of...
Groups Seek Cleanup of Groundwater Poisoned by Coal Ash Contamination
Conservation groups today asked the N.C. Environmental Management Commission to require Progress Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Carolinas to clean up groundwater contaminated by old, unlined coal ash lagoons at 14 coal-fired power plants that...