Press Releases
Landmark Environmental Justice Bill Introduced in Congress
WASHINGTON — Today the most far-reaching Congressional bill to advance environmental justice was introduced, during a time of increasing political commitment to address how communities of color and people with limited financial means bear the...
Clean Energy Advocates Call on TVA to Halt Its Plans for New Gas, Align with Federal Goals
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Clean energy groups, in public comments submitted on March 13, are calling on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to halt its plans for a massive build-out of gas-fired power plants that are...
Court Finds North Carolina’s Denial of Mountain Valley Pipeline Permit Consistent with Clean Water Act
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decided that the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality complied with the Clean Water Act and state water quality laws in denying...
Report by Duke and UNC Shows Cost-Effective Approach to Reducing Carbon
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — According to a report released today by Duke University and the University of North Carolina, setting a declining cap on carbon pollution from power plants and joining a cooperative effort with...
Active Energy Sued for Illegal Pollution of North Carolina’s Lumber River from Toxic Site
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — On behalf of Winyah Rivers Alliance, the Southern Environmental Law Center today sued to stop Active Energy Renewable Power and Lumberton Energy Holdings— subsidiaries of the U.K. company, Active Energy Group—from...
Hopes for Action on PFAS, Water Protections, Coal Ash and Climate Change with Regan EPA Leadership
WASHINGTON — The Southern Environmental Law Center released the following statement by Derb Carter, director of the North Carolina offices of the Southern Environmental Law Center, regarding the expected confirmation of Michael Regan, former Secretary...
Groups Ask Court to Permanently Protect Land Held by Birmingham Water Works Board
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Cahaba Riverkeeper and Cahaba River Society, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, have filed a challenge in Jefferson County Circuit Court against the Birmingham Water Works Board to enforce a settlement...
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 annual harvest violates...
SELC secures $1 million settlement in plastic-pellet spill
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Frontier Logistics has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the company spilled plastic pellets into the Charleston Harbor from its former facility at Union Pier in downtown...
Expert analysis reveals a cleaner pathway for Duke Energy’s future
RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke Energy’s 2020 Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs) do not represent the most cost-effective way for Duke to serve North Carolina ratepayers, according to expert analysis filed with state regulators by clean energy groups. The...