Press Releases
Alabama rivers, Great Smoky Mountains are featured topics for 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: John Hall for Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers, published by the University...
Virginia’s Challenge Of EPA Carbon-Emissions Rule Misguided
The announcement today by Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli that he is challenging the Environment Protection Agency finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public health and welfare is misguided, a waste of taxpayer money in...
Army Corps Fails to Protect 500 Acres of Wetlands Near Charleston
Conservation groups today notified the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of their intent to challenge its decision that no permits are required under the federal Clean Water Act before the development of approximately 500 acres...
Dominion Energy Efficiency Plan a Good Start, But Short-Changes Business and Low-Income Customers
At a hearing scheduled to start tomorrow, the Southern Environmental Law Center will urge the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to direct Dominion Power to expand and refine its energy efficiency programs proposed for 2010 and...
River Advocates Allege Clean Water Act Violations By N. C. Hog Operation
River advocates served legal notice to a large industrialized hog operation in eastern North Carolina for violations of the Clean Water Act.
Lee Smith, Renowned Southern Writer and NYTimes Best-Selling Author, Featured Speaker at SELC Event
The Southern Environmental Law Center is pleased to host renowned southern writer Lee Smith at the upcoming Virginia Festival of the Book in a special event on Saturday, March 20 from 12 noon to 2 p.m.
Conservation Groups Applaud Right-Sizing of Massive Mountain Highway in NC, TN
The Departments of Transportation in Tennessee and North Carolina are now studying ways to complete the Corridor K project between Chattanooga and Asheville by improving existing roads instead of building stretches of new four-lane highway...
Conservation Groups Cheer Settlement Ending Long Fight to Stop Road Through Great Smokies Park
SELC joins conservation groups across the region in applauding the historic settlement that successfully ends the decades-long fight to stop a highway through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Conservation groups in court to save highly endangered whales
Conservation groups today challenged the U.S. Navy’s decision to build its $100 million Undersea Warfare Training Range next to the only known calving ground for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Catawba River Interbasin Transfer Controversy Resolved
Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, Inc. and SELC reached an agreement with cities to significantly reduce the amount of water transferred out of the Catawba River in North Carolina during drought conditions.