Press Releases
Top 10 Endangered Places in the Southeast Identified by the Southern Environmental Law Center
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), the largest environmental advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the Southeast, today announced its fourth annual list of the top 10 places in the South that face immediate, potentially irreparable...
EPA Backs Down on Controlling Greenhouse Gases from Burning Biomass
Today the EPA changed course and said it will not regulate carbon dioxide from facilities that burn trees and other biomass for at least three years. In the meantime, biomass facilities that come online or...
Lesson from oil spill commission: reform and better oversight needed
SELC called for systemic reform and better oversight after the oil spill commission’s investigation found the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout resulted from pervasive problems.
Pervasive problems within oil industry require reform
Problems in the oil industry by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling confirms the need for systemic reform and better oversight.
Paving paradise: Conservation groups react to decision on North Carolina bridge construction
Summary: • The North Carolina Department of Transportation today made available to the public the Record of Decision (“ROD”) signed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on the plan to replace the deteriorating Herbert C.
Judge Expedites Monroe Bypass Challenge – Will Consider Temporary Injunction Later if Necessary
U.S. District Judge James C. Dever, III, today put off as premature a request by environmental groups for a temporary injunction for the proposed Monroe Bypass near Charlotte, but is expediting the case and said...
Prime Wildlife Habitat in Tennessee Spared under Agreement Between Conservation Groups and U.S. Forest Service
Conservation groups have withdrawn their challenge of a large timber sale that the U.S. Forest Service was planning in the north section of the Cherokee National Forest after reaching an agreement with the agency sparing...
Court rules GA failed to set safe limits on pollutants from coal plant
A Georgia state court today rejected Georgia’s air quality permit for Plant Washington, a proposed 850 mega-watt coal-fired power plant in Sandersville, GA. According to today’s ruling, the state permit for the Plant Washington violated...
SELC Commends DOI Decision to Restore Ban of Offshore Drilling in Atlantic and Eastern Gulf
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Atlantic coast and the eastern Gulf of Mexico coast will remain off-limits to offshore oil and gas drilling at least through 2017.
Public Interest Groups Ask Judge to Put an Immediate Halt to Billion-Dollar Bypass
Environmental groups today filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in federal court seeking an immediate halt to any further action by the N.C. Department of Transportation on the proposed Monroe Bypass near Charlotte, including...