Taxonomy Archives: Tennessee
Clarify Legal Protections for Streams and Wetlands
SELC welcomes the introduction of a bi-partisan compromise in the U.S. House of Representatives that restores long overdue protections for streams and wetlands.
EPA “Tailpipe” Rule Curbing Greenhouse Gases Offers Multiple Benefits for the South
The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation today jointly issued a historic rule on curbing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from light-duty vehicles, which contribut...
Conservation Groups Applaud Right-Sizing of Massive Mountain Highway in NC, TN
The Departments of Transportation in Tennessee and North Carolina are now studying ways to complete the Corridor K project between Chattanooga and Asheville by improving existing roads instead of buil...
Conservation Groups Cheer Settlement Ending Long Fight to Stop Road Through Great Smokies Park
SELC joins conservation groups across the region in applauding the historic settlement that successfully ends the decades-long fight to stop a highway through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
SELC Lauds EPA Proposal to Strengthen Ozone Limit to Protect Health of Southerners
Consistent with the latest scientific data about the growing health threat from breathing smog pollution, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to strengthen the national limit for a...
EPA To Issue Strict Rules for U.S. Power Plant Air Toxics
The U.S. EPA agreed to adopt rules reducing toxic air pollution from the nation¹s coal- and oil-burning power plants by November 2011, according to a settlement agreement reached in a federal lawsuit ...
Conservationists back USFS action to restore water quality in NC’s Tellico ORV area
Final decision announced today by the U.S. Forest Service as a win-win approach to resolving the problem.
SELC applauds introduction of forest-protection bill in Congress
Senators Mark Warner and Jim Webb of Virginia and Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina, along with 17 members of the Southeast's congressional delegation are joining more than 150 colleagues from acros...
EPA CO2 Limits Overdue under Clean Air Act, but Welcome
SELC welcomed EPA's announcement on a proposal to establish nationwide standards for controlling largest sources of heat trapping gas pollutants.
SELC Urges EPA to Set Strong Smog Limit to Protect Public Health in the South
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced it will re-evaluate the national limit for ozone pollution.