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EPA "Tailpipe" Rule Curbing Greenhouse Gases Offers Multiple Benefits for the South
1 Apr 2010, 1:45 pm |
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Six Months of Oil Not Worth Risking Southern Beaches and Fisheries
31 Mar 2010, 3:46 pm |
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Obama Administration Takes Giant Step Backward in Opening Virginia and South Atlantic to Offshore Drilling
31 Mar 2010, 12:37 pm |
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Environmental Groups go to Court to Counter Virginia Attorney General's Effort to Block Action on Climate Change
19 Mar 2010, 1:00 pm |
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SELC Attorneys Receive Honors
17 Mar 2010, 4:39 pm |
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Southern Environmental Law Center A recent N.C. Supreme Court ruling opens season on N.C. trout streams for golf course developers--allowing a country club to raze forested buffers along trout streams and permanently enclose a mountain stream within a pipe despite a state law requiring “undisturbed” buffers to protect trout streams and water quality.
In a loss for N.C. trout, water quality and sportsmen, the N.C. Supreme Court ruled six to one that a country club golf course's razing of forested buffer areas along sensitive trout sreams and permanent enclosure of a N.C. mountain stream was allowed despite a state law requiring "undisturbed" buff...
Southern Environmental Law Center Nesting Birds & Sea Turtles Break Records at Cape Hatteras National Seashore
With the breeding season still underway, 2010 is already a record-breaking year for rare sea turtles and waterbirds that nest on beaches at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, according to preliminary numbers from the National Park Service.
Southern Environmental Law Center Cville and Albemarle Residents: Register for the Cville Home Energy Makeover Contest and help SELC! Enter “Southern Environmental Law Center” on the form before August 20th and we could win $1,000 – spread the word!
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Our homes are one of our most important investments, yet we don't often give them the attention they need. Leaky walls, windows and doors, insuffi
Southern Environmental Law Center Almost four years of litigation today resulted in an agreement to sharply reduce air pollution associated with the port in Charleston, S.C. and ensure accommodations for rail at its new terminal instead of relying on more trucks using commuter routes.
The S.C. State Ports Authority and the Coastal Conservation League today reached a settlement on various lawsuits over the SPA’s new container terminal and an access road to it.
Southern Environmental Law Center EPA today rejected the “climate-gate” issue and stuck to its findings that global warming pollution endangers human health. Climate skeptics had petitioned EPA to change its ruling; they also filed suit against the agency. SELC is intervening in that lawsuit.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, and threatens human health and the environment.
Southern Environmental Law Center Massive interstate project in Charleston SC would ruin wetlands, bring sprawl to rural communities, degrade air and water quality - and not relieve traffic congestion; SELC responds to environmental report from SCDOT.
The draft report released today by the South Carolina Department of Transportation, which describes the environmental impacts of the proposed Mark Clark Expressway, fails to consider alternatives that are far less harmful and less costly than building a major interstate through communities, open-spa...
Southern Environmental Law Center A judge has invalidated two key water permits for Plant Washington, an 850-megawatt coal-fired power plant proposed in central Georgia, in a challenge brought by SELC and GreenLaw on behalf of several conservation groups in Georgia.
Public interest groups have won a key legal challenge to two state water permits for the proposed 850-megawatt Plant Washington coal-fired power plant in Sandersville, GA. A Georgia administrative court has ruled that the water withdrawal and water pollution discharge permits issued by Georgia Envir...
Southern Environmental Law Center Titan update: Hear SELC attorney Geoff Gisler on WUNC's State of Things:
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Host Frank Stasio talks to Mike Giles of the N.C. Coastal Federation; Geoff Gisler, of the Southern Environmental Law Center; and Bill Caster, a New Hanover County Commissioner, about the Titan project and the process of environmental oversight.
Southern Environmental Law Center Oil industry response plan and assurances not enough after 3 months of spill, lasting damage, and previous industry assurances says SELC. Read more: http://bit.ly/cka6Ca
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Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips are creating a strike force to stanch oil spills in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico in a billion-dollar bid to regain the confidence of the White House after BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Southern Environmental Law Center Oil spill: SELC identifies Top 5 actions needed now to prevent another disaster. Learn More:
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SELC is leading legal efforts to end industry control of offshore drilling and ensure that nothing like the disaster in the Gulf ever happens again.
Southern Environmental Law Center A new federal moratorium pauses risky deepwater drilling operations until safety and environmental safeguards can be assessed as oil still hemorrhages into the Gulf and onto coasts after the tragic Deepwater Horizon explosion.
The federal moratorium announced today pauses risky deepwater drilling operations until safety and environmental safeguards can be assessed as oil still hemorrhages into the Gulf and onto states’ coasts after the tragic Deepwater Horizon explosion, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center....
Southern Environmental Law Center A decision by a federal appeals court in New Orleans leaves open the door to staying any new deepwater drilling in the Gulf if needed while the court expedites hearing the merits of the federal moratorium case in the beginning or August or September.
A federal appeals court rejects the Obama administration's request to keep a six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling in place while it mounts a legal defense of the ban, imposed after the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Southern Environmental Law Center SELC and the Clean Air Task Force are seeking to intervene in a lawsuit, brought by the forest-products industry and others, to defend EPA’s decision to count emissions from burning biomass when it begins regulating greenhouse gases from large power plants and factories next year.
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Four environmental groups, representing citizens concerned about climate change and forest resources in New England and the Southeast, filed a joint motion in federal court late yesterday to help defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to count emissions from burning biomass when ...
Southern Environmental Law Center The Gulf oil spill and ongoing human and environmental disaster highlights the need to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling from the equally fragile Mid- and South Atlantic and eastern Gulf, say 31 groups from New Jersey to Alabama in SELC's letter to the Obama Administration today.
A coalition of31 groups from New Jersey to Florida and Alabama* joined forces today to tell the Obama Administration to permanently withdraw the Mid- and South Atlantic and eastern Gulf from any drilling for offshore oil and gas. (*See below for a complete list. This has been updated as of 1:20 PM t...
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