Press Releases
Voters Say Clean Environment Key to Jobs in North Carolina
A strong majority of North Carolina voters says deep cuts in environmental protections proposed in a legislative budget would handicap the economy and harm the state's quality of life, according to a new poll from...
New Government Guidance Clarifies Protection of U.S. Wetlands and Streams
New guidance proposed today by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency would bring long-awaited and much needed clarity to the protection of our nation’s streams, wetlands, and open waters.
Charleston County Says “No” to Major Bypass, Bucking a Decades-Long Transportation Trend in South Carolina
In a historic move, Charleston County Council has voted to reject extending a major interstate highway, I-526, marking a significant step forward for South Carolina and a great success for advocates of smart growth and...
State Senators’ Oil Bill Would Put NC’s Coastal Tourism and Fishing Jobs at Risk
North Carolina Republican senators today moved to put North Carolina’s coast at risk to oil spills on the one-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster despite the harm witnessed to life in and around...
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...