Taxonomy Archives: Alabama

Water crisis in Prichard

EPA unveils clean car standards for light-duty vehicles

WASHINGTON — Today the Environmental Protection Agency finalized clean car standards that aim to significantly cut greenhouse gas and other harmful tailpipe pollution from light-duty vehicles.

Alabama coal ash to be recycled, but questions remain

SELC, Mobile Baykeeper statement on Plant Barry coal ash pollution lawsuit dismissal 

MOBILE, Ala.— Today the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Mobile Baykeeper, challenging Alabama Po...

Meet our 2024 Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award finalists  

SELC announces finalists for the 2024 Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award   

Alabamians want clean water, not coal ash pollution

EPA asked to intervene in Prichard Ala. water crisis 

PRICHARD, Ala. — Today the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), on behalf of We Matter Eight Mile Community Association and more than 20 environmental justice and faith-based groups, drafted and ...

Tuscaloosa ignores chronic sewage spills, groups join state lawsuit

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— Black Warrior Riverkeeper and Friends of Hurricane Creek, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), petitioned the Court to join a lawsuit against the city of Tusc...

Bluestone Coke sued for water pollution

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Today Black Warrior Riverkeeper and GASP, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, filed a lawsuit against Bluestone Coke for violating the Federal Clean Water Act.