Press Releases
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...
Groups Challenge State’s Water Permit for Controversial Monroe Bypass as Bogus
A permit issued by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the proposed Monroe Bypass east of Charlotte fails to fully assess the water quality impacts from building a 20-mile highway through the...
SELC Calls on Fisheries Commission to Prevent Waste in Striped Bass Trawl Fishery
SELC called on the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission to prevent waste in the striped bass trawl fishery after reports, photographs and videos of trawlers discarding thousands of striped bass on January 16, 2011 and again...
Forest Service, Environmentalists Reach Accord After Years-Long Timber Fight in North Carolina
After years of debate, the U.S. Forest Service and conservation groups have reached a mutual agreement over logging plans for the Globe area of the Pisgah National Forest near Boone and Blowing Rock.
Over 100 Virginians Expected to Tell Meeting of National Science Panel to “Keep the Ban” on Uranium
More than 100 citizens from around the Commonwealth were expected to turn out today for a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) meeting in Richmond to support keeping a statewide ban on uranium mining and milling...
Corps’ Study Shows Deepening of Savannah Harbor Unneeded and Wasteful
The Corps’ environmental analysis of the proposed deepening of the Savannah Harbor is either so fundamentally flawed that it must be redone, or it shows that the project is a colossal waste of valuable resources,...
Groups to Defend Pollution Limits on Cement Plants
Groups that kept the proposed Titan America cement plant near Wilmington, N.C., accountable to standards protecting the health of N.C. residents now will defend national pollution limits on cement plants after a federal court granted...