Taxonomy Archives: environmental justice

World’s largest biomass wood pellet producer files for bankruptcy

Draft Air Permit for Hopewell AdvanSix Facility Misses the Mark

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —  This week the Southern Environmental Law Center, Hopewell-Colonial Heights NAACP, Sierra Club’s Falls of the James Group, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light, and Chesapeake Bay ...

Regional landfill’s pollution endangers community in Sampson County, N.C. and surrounding environment

Igniting a coal ash revolution: 10 years after Duke Energy’s spill into the Dan River

SELC Joins Partnership to Connect Communities to Environmental Justice Funding

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Southern Environmental Law Center has been selected to help connect communities to new funding opportunities as part of a historic federal environmental justice grantmaking program...

North Carolina industry group challenges $1.70 on their bills designed to safeguard low-income customers from disconnection amid soaring electricity costs

A message on Senator Manchin’s latest attempt to fast-track fossil fuel projects

WASHINGTON- Today, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin once again introduced a permitting bill intended to fast-track fossil-fuel projects, especially the expensive and risky Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Biden Administration ends Earth Week with Executive Order aiming to strengthen Environmental Justice

Concerned Citizens of Cook County, SELC secure stringent terms in settlement agreement with Spectrum Energy LLC

SELC, GASP secure nearly $1 million penalty against Bluestone Coke plant