Taxonomy Archives: North Carolina
State Senators’ Oil Bill Would Put NC’s Coastal Tourism and Fishing Jobs at Risk
North Carolina Republican senators today moved to put North Carolina’s coast at risk to oil spills on the one-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster despite the harm witnessed to life i...
Deja Vu One Year after the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
As the one-year anniversary of the deadly BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill nears, the Southern Environmental Law Center today called on Congress to fix systemic problems with oil drilling ...
Dept. of Interior’s Finding of No Significant Impact from Deep Water Drilling after the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
SELC comments on the Department of Interior's finding of no significant impact from deep water drilling after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Limits on Hazardous Air Pollutants Save Lives and Protect Health
Twenty years after Congress updated the Clean Air Act, the Southern Environmental Law Center welcomed today’s announcement from EPA proposing maximum limits for more than 80 hazardous air pollutants b...
Politicians Muddy N.C. Creek’s Clean Water Overruling Scientists
Industrial Lobbyists Stick to “Chicken Little” Rhetoric Despite Evidence of Environmental and Health
A report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today shows that pollution controls for ozone and soot in the 1990 amendments of the Clean Air Act-currently under harsh attack from polluting in...
Groups Challenge State’s Water Permit for Controversial Monroe Bypass as Bogus
SELC Calls on Fisheries Commission to Prevent Waste in Striped Bass Trawl Fishery
SELC called on the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission to prevent waste in the striped bass trawl fishery after reports, photographs and videos of trawlers discarding thousands of striped bass on January...
Forest Service, Environmentalists Reach Accord After Years-Long Timber Fight in North Carolina
After years of debate, the U.S. Forest Service and conservation groups have reached a mutual agreement over logging plans for the Globe area of the Pisgah National Forest near Boone and Blowing Rock.
Over 100 Virginians Expected to Tell Meeting of National Science Panel to “Keep the Ban” on Uranium
More than 100 citizens from around the Commonwealth were expected to turn out today for a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) meeting in Richmond to support keeping a statewide ban on uranium mining an...