Taxonomy Archives: North Carolina

The mission to reduce miles driven in North Carolina

Cleaner air: Settlement sets new limits, improves monitoring at biogas plant

Settlement sets new limits, improves monitoring on gas project to better protect community

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Eastern North Carolina will benefit from new operating limits and better monitoring that will provide greater protections against air pollution from a gas processing plant after a ...

Civil rights filing alleges discriminatory harm in industrial hog operations permits

Civil rights filing alleges discriminatory harm in NC hog operations permits

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— On behalf of the Duplin County Branch of the North Carolina Conference of the NAACP and the North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a comp...

SELC’s Chandra Taylor is Water Conservationist of the Year

Lumber Riverkeeper fights to keep waterway safe and clean

Federal Regulators Again Delay Decision and Request More Information on Utilities’ Proposal for New Energy Market

WASHINGTON — Today the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission once again requested more information before ruling on a proposal by Southeastern utilities to alter the existing wholesale energy market, c...

Conservation Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Elimination of Critical North Carolina Protections for Sea Turtles and Fish

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Today Cape Fear River Watch, North Carolina Wildlife Federation, and Defenders of Wildlife, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), filed a challenge against th...

North Carolina to Develop Rule to Limit Carbon Pollution from Power Plants

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— The groups behind a rulemaking petition to reduce heat-trapping carbon pollution from power plants in North Carolina today welcomed its approval by the N.C.  Environmental Managemen...