Taxonomy Archives: South Carolina

March 5, 2021

SELC joins legal effort to block horseshoe crab harvest

CAPE ROMAIN, S.C. — Today, conservation groups asked a federal district court judge to halt a planned blood harvest of thousands of horseshoe crabs in Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, arguing the...

March 3, 2021

Frontier Logistics agrees to $1.2 million settlement in pellet-pollution lawsuit

February 11, 2021

2021 Reed Awards Honor Great Writing About the Southeast’s Fragile Coast

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Two writers who have delved into the past and present challenges facing treasured places on the Southeast coast will receive the 2021 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award...

January 20, 2021

SELC Statement on Rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Southern Environmental Law Center released the following statement by Executive Director Jeff Gleason in response to President Biden’s Executive Order to rejoin the Paris Cl...

December 21, 2020

Dominion Energy’s costly expansion plans sent back to drawing board

December 17, 2020

President-elect Biden Names SELC’s Director of Regulatory Policy to Top White House Environmental Post

WASHINGTON — Brenda Mallory, Director of Regulatory Policy for the Southern Environmental Law Center, has been chosen to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where she will be a prin...

December 17, 2020

2020 Trends Making and Braking Rooftop Solar in the South

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Today the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) announced its 2020 Solar “Makers” and “Brakers” list highlighting some of the most impactful policies affecting rooftop solar ...

December 16, 2020

Dominion Energy unveils steep solar fees threatening solar jobs, access to rooftop solar

December 16, 2020

Dominion Energy unveils job-killing, rate-hiking solar fees

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Just days before Christmas, Dominion Energy South Carolina has unveiled a slate of newly proposed fees and rate changes that will cause solar-industry workers to lose their jobs, forc...

December 15, 2020

Dominion’s costly expansion plans sent back to drawing board

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina regulatory board rejected Dominion Energy’s expensive and predictable plans to provide power to its customers over the next decades, saying the Virginia-based utility...