Southern Environmental Law Center

Southern Environmental Law Center
Formation 1986
Founder Rick Middleton
Type 501(c)(3)
Purpose Environmentalism
Headquarters Charlottesville, Virginia
Region
Southern United States
Revenue (2017)
38,054,373[1]
Expenses (2017) 26,520,552[1]
Staff
over 70 attorneys

Southern Environmental Law Center is a non-profit environmental public interest law firm headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, with offices in Chapel Hill, Asheville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Charleston (South Carolina), Nashville, Richmond, and Washington, D.C.

Advocacy and litigation

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) engages in advocacy through lawsuits and publishing white papers.

The SELC is one of three environmental groups which filed suit against the United States Fish and Wildlife Service which "they say should have blocked the planned extension of the N.C. 540 highway across southern Wake County" because it would "threaten the existence of two endangered species of mussels that live in a creek the road would cross."[2]

The Law Center argued the case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit where the court "vacated a key permit granted to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline," concluding "that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provided no specific limits for the allowable impact on threatened and endangered species."[3]

The group opposed the Trump administration's rollback of the offshore drilling safety rules put in place after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[4]

Cases

Reported opinions which have involved the SELC include:

  • Catawba Riverkeeper Found. v. N.C. Dep't of Transp., 843 F.3d 583 (4th Cir. 2016).
  • S.C. Coastal Conservation League v. U.S. Army Corps of Eng'rs, 789 F.3d 475 (4th Cir. 2015).
  • North Carolina Wildlife Fed'n v. North Carolina Dep't of Transp., 677 F.3d 596 (4th Cir. 2012).
  • Southern Alliance For Clean Energy v. Duke Energy Carolinas Llc, 650 F.3d 401 (4th Cir. 2011).
  • South Carolina Wildlife Federation v. Limehouse, 549 F.3d 324 (4th Cir. 2008).
  • James City County, Va. v. E.P.A., 955 F.2d 254 (4th Cir. 1992).

Staff

More than seventy attorneys work for the Southern Environmental Law Center. Former United States Deputy Secretary of Education Frank Holleman is a senior litigating attorney with the Chapel Hill office.

Ratings

Charity Navigator provides a rating of 100.00 out of 100 for Southern Environmental Law Center.[5] It found that it spends 86.1% of costs on programs and 8.9% on administrative expenses.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Southern Environmental Law Center FINANCIAL REPORT Year Ended March 31, 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  2. ↑ Stradling, Richard. "Environmentalists sue federal agency to try to stop NC 540". The Raleigh News & Observer. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  3. ↑ Rankin, Sarah. "Court vacates key federal permit for Atlantic Coast Pipeline". Associated Press. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "Southern Environmental Law Center on Trump administration offshore drilling safety rollback". Augusta Free Press. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Southern Environmental Law Center". Charity Navigator: Your Guide to Intelligent Giving. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
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