Taxonomy Archives: Virginia

February 17, 2022

Chickahominy Pipeline ‘hits pause’ on a gas project cutting through central Virginia

February 14, 2022

Chickahominy Pipeline suspends beleaguered gas project

February 9, 2022

SELC statement on Senate vote to reject Wheeler for Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources

The Virginia Senate voted Tuesay to reject Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s secretary of natural and historic resources nominee Andrew Wheeler, who served as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency ...

February 8, 2022

Protect waterways to better protect communities SELC tells Biden administration

WASHINGTON—The Southern Environmental Law Center today submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency that were also signed by 90 organizations urging the Biden administration to finalize r...

February 7, 2022

Virginia’s Pine Grove School preserves and celebrates Black history

February 3, 2022

New web tool digs into development decisions and flooding

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A new website and interactive mapping tool released today by the Southern Environmental Law Center will allow citizens, activists and policymakers to look at how both current an...

January 31, 2022

SELC, NAACP act to defend environmental justice, denial of Lambert Compressor Station permit

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — On behalf of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, today the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit in order to defend the denial of a permit ...

January 16, 2022

SELC statement on Youngkin Administration’s Executive Order to Remove Virginia from RGGI

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Yesterday Governor Youngkin issued an Executive Order directing a regulatory process to end Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a program ...

January 13, 2022

“It only takes that one storm”: Virginians are solving flooding problems thanks to RGGI money

January 13, 2022

“Weatherization corrects environmental injustices”: Virginians are solving energy problems thanks to RGGI money