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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 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.
www.southernenvironment.org
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.
www.southernenvironment.org
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:
wunc.org
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:
southernenvironment.org
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.
www.southernenvironment.org
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.
www.latimes.com
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 Watch 'True Costs of Coal': Janisse Ray, southern writer and activist, reveals what isn’t on our monthly bills and how SELC is steering the South toward a less costly, cleaner energy future.
Southern utilities say coal is "cheap," but this argument doesn't add up when you factor in the costs to our environment and health.
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.
www.southernenvironment.org
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...
See MoreSouthern Environmental Law Center Off-road vehicle (ORV) kills nesting loggerhead sea turtle in Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Groups call for better enforcement of protections:
www.southernenvironment.org
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—After a rare female loggerhead sea turtle was dragged and killed by an off-road vehicle while attempting to nest at night on the beaches of Cape Hatteras National Seashore ...
Southern Environmental Law Center SELC and groups are disappointed in a federal district court decision that lifted a six-month federal moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf that would have allowed for safety reviews after the loss of life in the Deepwater Horizon explosion and ongoing deepwater oil spill damaging the Gulf Coast.
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Environmental groups expressed disappointment over a federal district court decision today to halt a six-month federal moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling...
Southern Environmental Law Center MMS continues to sell more deepwater leases to BP & others under same lax oversight that led to oil spill, obligating the government to pay companies if it cancels the leases or doesn't allow a well to be drilled and creating an incentive to allow drilling despite evident risks. SELC & Defenders challenge this continued lax oversight.
Southern Environmental Law Center » Newsroom » Mms Deepwater Lease Sales To Bp Others Continues Lax.
www.southernenvironment.org
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) continues to approve new leases after the Deepwater Horizon explosion that give British Petroleum and other companies the right to drill even more deepwater wells ...
Southern Environmental Law Center Southern senators Warner, Webb and Hagan today helped kill a dangerous plan by Sen. Murkowski to strip the EPA of its legal authority to set limits on global warming pollution.
www.southernenvironment.org
The Southern Environmental Law Center applauds action by the U.S. Senate today voting down a proposal that would have prolonged the country's addiction to fossil fuels even as oil continues to spew into the Gulf of Mexico in the worst man-made environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Southern Environmental Law Center
Charlottesville Friends: Please Help Our Community Improve Route 29.
Please email the Board of Supervisors today to voice your support for Places29 and attend a public hearing this Wednesday. Learn More:
www.southernenvironment.org
We all know that the Charlottesville-Albemarle area is a special place, with a character all its own. But we also know there’s a problem spot that affects all of us: the sprawling Route 29 corridor. The ...
