Press Releases
Southern Leaders receive $530 million in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants to curb pollution and tackle climate change.
WASHINGTON – Today, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virgina won Climate Pollution Reduction grants from the Environmental Protection Agency in a competitive grant program under the landmark Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
SELC files petition with EPA raising concerns about air pollution permit issued to AdvanSix plant in Hopewell
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Southern Environmental Law Center last week formally petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to object to the Title V permit issued to AdvanSix Resins and Chemicals LLC, a chemical manufacturing plant in...
Conservation groups petition EPA to revoke Georgia’s CCR Permit Program
ATLANTA — Today the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Coosa River Basin Initiative, Altamaha Riverkeeper, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, the Sierra Club and others, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
Groups sue DES over illegal rules for major water withdrawals
Loophole allows removal of all water from rivers CHARLESTON, S.C. — Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in South Carolina state court against the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services challenging the agency’s...
Settlement lowers proposed SC Dominion Energy bill increase
Settlement to increase low-income energy efficiency program spending CAYCE, S.C. — Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Coastal Conservation League and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, joined a settlement in the...
Nearly half of Memphis families face high energy burdens, according to new report
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A new study shows that more than 48 percent of Memphians face high energy burdens, meaning a larger percent of their income goes to paying their power bill. Energy burden measures...
Duke Energy’s North Carolina Carbon Plan flouts the law
Advocates urge utilities commission to affirm legal requirements disregarded by the energy monopoly CHAPEL HILL, N.C.– A group of clean energy advocates filed a motion asking the North Carolina Utilities Commission to affirm the...
Groups sue Columbia carpet manufacturer for “forever chemical” pollution
Shaw Industries’ PFAS discharges threaten rivers and drinking water sources COLUMBIA, S.C. — Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal court against Shaw Industries on behalf of Congaree Riverkeeper due...
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and Southern Environmental Law Center threaten to sue City of Atlanta for Clean Water Act violations
ATLANTA – Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, told the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management that it would have 60 days to stop discharging illegal levels of pollution from the R.M. Clayton...
Supreme Court Term Threatens Massive Regulatory Upheaval
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System that opens the gates to massive regulatory upheaval and a flood of corporate...