Press Releases
Deja Vu One Year after the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
As the one-year anniversary of the deadly BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill nears, the Southern Environmental Law Center today called on Congress to fix systemic problems with oil drilling and the oil industry...
Groups Sue ALDOT for Flawed Environmental Study on Northern Beltline
In violation of federal law, the state Department of Transportation failed to fully account for the environmental impacts of the massive, high-priced Northern Beltline, conservation groups said in a lawsuit filed today in federal district...
Clean Water Groups Defend State Effort to Reduce Polluted Runoff
The Alabama Rivers Alliance, Black Warrior Riverkeeper and the Cahaba River Society have filed a motion to intervene in a permit appeal by a business organization filed against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management to...
Appalachian Mountains, Beloved and Imperiled, are Themes of 2011 Reed Writing Award Winners
SELC is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. In the Book category, Tennessee naturalist and Methodist minister Charles W. Maynard won...
Dept. of Interior’s Finding of No Significant Impact from Deep Water Drilling after the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
SELC comments on the Department of Interior's finding of no significant impact from deep water drilling after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Limits on Hazardous Air Pollutants Save Lives and Protect Health
Twenty years after Congress updated the Clean Air Act, the Southern Environmental Law Center welcomed today’s announcement from EPA proposing maximum limits for more than 80 hazardous air pollutants by large power plants and called...
Public Meetings on Tennessee’s Plan to Protect Cumberland Ridgelines from Surface Coal Mining
The U.S. Office of Surface Mining (OSM) will hold three public hearings starting this week to receive input from local citizens regarding the state's petition to protect mountain ridgelines on public lands in the Cumberland...
Politicians Muddy N.C. Creek’s Clean Water Overruling Scientists
The North Carolina House late yesterday passed HB 62 that reverses efforts by state biologists to limit pollution and protect native brook trout in Boylston Creek in western North Carolina, a tributary of the French...
Industrial Lobbyists Stick to “Chicken Little” Rhetoric Despite Evidence of Environmental and Health
A report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today shows that pollution controls for ozone and soot in the 1990 amendments of the Clean Air Act-currently under harsh attack from polluting industries and allies on...
Award-winning Author Silas House Featured Speaker at SELC’s Event at the Virginia Festival of the Book
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), the largest conservation organization dedicated to protecting the environment of the Southeast, is pleased to host renowned southern writer Silas House (Eli the Good, Something’s Rising) at the upcoming...