Press Releases
Virtual Meeting on Proposed Okefenokee Swamp Mine Draws More Questions Than Answers
ATLANTA, GA—Today the Savannah District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a virtual public meeting concerning Twin Pines’ new application for the first phase of a 12,000-acre proposed mine on the southeastern edge...
FAA Requires Spaceport Camden Proponents to Restart Environmental Review
ATLANTA, GA—Today the Federal Aviation Administration announced it will require Camden County to complete a revised Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Spaceport Camden.
Dominion plan undermines Virginia’s new Clean Economy Act
Dominion Energy’s recently released Integrated Resource Plan, lays out a plan that remains fossil fuel-intensive and will produce 10 million tons of carbon pollution in 2045, at a time when new Virginia law requires the utility...
Conservation Groups Challenge EPA’s Gutting of Clean Water Protections in Federal Court
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Conservation groups today challenged in federal court the administration’s effort to gut clean water protections from wetlands and streams that feed drinking-water sources for 200 million Americans...
D.C. Circuit Hears Challenge to Unjust FERC Practice Used to Advance Construction of Unnecessary Atlantic Coast Pipeline
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard a challenge to FERC "tolling orders" that prevents landowners and communities from challenging FERC’s decisions in court before energy infrastructure projects get under way- including...
U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Protecting Water from Toxic Pollution
WASHINGTON, DC—Following a decision today by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Southern Environmental Law Center released the following statement by Frank Holleman, a senior attorney at the center.
Former EPA, Army Officials Condemn Trump Administration’s Clean Water Act Rollback
WASHINGTON, DC – Six former senior government officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army today condemned the Trump administration’s plan to gut long-established clean water protections.
Amid Health Crisis, Trump Administration Advances Rule to Gut Essential Clean Water Protections
WASHINGTON, DC – As communities across the country take action against COVID-19, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today published a rule in the Federal Register...
Court Again Rules that Flawed Decision to Continue Vogtle Project May Not be Challenged Until Project is Finished
ATLANTA, GA—A Fulton County Superior Court has again declined to address the merits of a challenge to the 2017 decision by the Georgia Public Service Commission to approve continuation of the Plant Vogtle expansion project.
New Law Sets Virginia on a Clean Energy Path
On Saturday Governor Ralph Northam signed the Virginia Clean Economy Act, which will replace all carbon-emitting power plants in Virginia with zero-carbon generation by 2050, with milestones to ensure progress along the way.