Taxonomy Archives: Alabama
Conservation Groups Denounce Approval of Coal Mine Permit
The Alabama Environmental Management Commission (EMC) today unanimously voted to approve a permit issued for the Shepherd Bend coal mine, a 1,773-acre strip mine to be located less than 1,000 feet fro...
Lawsuit Challenges Clean Air Act Exemption for Biomass Burners
Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging an Environmental Protection Agency rule that exempts large-scale biomass-burning facilities from carbon dioxide limits under the Clean Air Act for...
Groups Urge MPO to Drop Northern Beltline From Local Transportation Plan
Two local groups have asked the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to remove the Northern Beltline from the proposed four-year funding plan because of the project's ballooning price tag, questio...
Conservation Groups Issue Call to Action to Restore and Protect Alabama Waters
Two leading conservation organizations, the Alabama Rivers Alliance and Southern Environmental Law Center, today released a report detailing the changes needed in state policies to ensure that Alabama...
Biomass Rule Bad News for Southern Forests, Undercuts Climate Change Efforts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in its overall effort to rein in heat-trapping greenhouse gases, took a major step backwards today with a final decision to ignore carbon pollution from bioma...
Governor’s veto keeps N.C. coast for beach balls, not tar balls
Today’s vetoes by Governor Perdue of two bills--S.709 and S.781— defend North Carolina’s clean energy economy and a safe, healthy environment for residents and tourists, said the Southern Environmenta...
Water Wars Ruling Exposes Lack of Water Resource Planning in Alabama
Yesterday's ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the decades-long tri-state water wars should be a wake-up call for Alabama to get serious about planning its own water future, Alabama c...
Government Approval of New Deepwater Oil Drilling Ignores Gulf Disaster
The federal government illegally authorized new deepwater drilling by claiming that risky operations will cause no significant harm to the environment despite last year’s BP Deepwater Horizon oil spil...
N.C. Beach Season Opens——to Oil?
After hundreds of visitors enjoy the Memorial Day weekend on North Carolina’s beaches, the N.C. House will vote to request that the federal government open its coast to the risk of oil spills from off...
Court Allows Environmental Challenges to Post-Oil Spill Leases to Proceed
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama ruled that Defenders and SELC may pursue their claims that the government violated the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Spe...