Taxonomy Archives: Tennessee

Statement by the SELC regarding EPA’s Notice to “Reconsider” Clean Water Act Coverage of Discharges

The following is a statement by Frank Holleman, senior attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center, regarding EPA’s notice for comment to reconsider its previous statements regarding the Clean Water A...

Trump’s Infrastructure Plan a Shell Game That Cuts Cleaner Transportation and Gives Away Environment

The White House is putting forward a reckless infrastructure plan that offers no new federal money for projects, pulls money away from cleaner transportation such as transit and rail, and removes envi...

Conservation Groups Challenge Attack on Clean Water in Federal Court

Conservation groups today challenged in court the administration’s effort to strip away crucial clean water protections from rivers, lakes, streams and other waters that feed drinking-water sources f...

Timber oversight in Cherokee National Forest shows pattern of mismanagement

Weak coal ash pollution permit at Kingston baffles many with still-fresh memories of coal ash spill

Nashville-area neighbors band together as natural gas infrastructure encroaches

SELC: Congress Passes Bill Proposing to Treat Southeastern National Forests as Mere Crops

Corporate demand for clean renewable energy stymied by TVA policies

SELC op-ed: Memphis aquifer belongs to the public, not TVA

Clean Power Plan Repeal Puts Coal Profits Ahead Of Health, Ignores Accelerating Weather Dangers

Charlottesville, VA – Without offering any ideas, substitutes or leadership, the Trump-appointed EPA chief today announced plans to repeal the landmark Clean Power Plan that was meant to address clim...