Press Releases
Tennessee Governor’s Petition Could Stop Mountaintop Mining on State Owned Lands
The Southern Environmental Law Center and the National Parks Conservation Association today applaud Governor Phil Bredesen and the state of Tennessee for petitioning to limit surface mining on state-owned lands in the North Cumberland Plateau,...
SCDOT’s Environmental Study For I-526 Extension Is Off-base, And Illegal
The environmental study by the state Department of Transportation for the proposed extension of I-526 distorts relevant data, skews the analysis of alternatives, and is heavily biased in favor of building the 8-mile, $489 million...
Agreement Reduces Trout Stream Impacts from Cliffs Mountain Golf Course
A legal challenge brought by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of the Western North Carolina Alliance and Trout Unlimited against a permit issued by the state to the Cliffs at High Carolina ended...
Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition Lauds Delay of ODEC’s Plans for a Coal-Fired Plant
The Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition lauded Old Dominion Electric Cooperative's announcement today to delay plans for what would be the largest coal-fired power plant in Virginia. The temporary halt will allow the company, its...
Ruling Opens Season on N. C. Trout Streams for Golf Course Developers
In a loss for N.C. trout, water quality and sportsmen, the N.C. Supreme Court today ruled six to one that a country club golf course’s razing of forested buffer areas along sensitive trout streams and...
Nesting birds and sea turtles break records at Cape Hatteras National Seashore
With the breeding season still underway, 2010 is already a record-breaking year for rare sea turtles and waterbirds that nest on beaches at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, according to preliminary numbers from the National Park...
Court victory greets returning plovers
A federal judge today ruled in favor of designating critical habitat areas for the wintering piping plover in North Carolina in compliance with the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
SCDOT Planners Ignore Better, Cheaper Alternative to Mark Clark Expressway
The draft report released today by the South Carolina Department of Transportation, which describes the environmental impacts of the proposed Mark Clark Expressway, fails to consider alternatives that are far less harmful and less costly...
Court Rules Water Permits for Georgia Coal Plant are Invalid
Public interest groups have won a key legal challenge to two state water permits for the proposed 850-megawatt Plant Washington coal-fired power plant in Sandersville, GA. ...
Downstream Users and River Advocates Challenge Paper Mill Permit
Downstream users and river advocates today challenged a North Carolina Division of Water Quality wastewater permit that fails to require adequate reductions in color and thermal pollutants being discharged by the Blue Ridge Paper Products...