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How Will Hurricane Irma Impact Coal Ash in her Path?

This blog was written by Amelia Shenstone, former Regional Advocacy Director with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

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Environmental Community Responds To DEQ Secretary’s Letter To Incoming Trump Administration

RALEIGH – A coalition of environmental advocacy groups responded to a letter sent November 16, 2016 by current NC DEQ Secretary Donald van der Vaart and others to President-Elect Donald Trump with…

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BREAKING NEWS: Waterkeeper Alliance and Upper Neuse Riverkeeper Respond to Duke Energy Cooling Pond Dam Breach of Quaker Neck Lake in Flooding Aftermath of Hurricane Matthew

The following press release is from Waterkeeper Alliance. See the original here. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA -- Today, Waterkeeper Alliance and Upper Neuse Riverkeeper are responding to and documenting the breach of a 1.2-billion-gallon…

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Will NC Gov. McCrory's DEQ Heed Demands for Proper Coal Ash Cleanup?

If you're paying attention to North Carolina politics, you know Governor Pat McCrory's administration seems very out of step with North Carolinians statewide. As his ink dries on the controversial HB2 (which…

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This Surfboard Carries an Important Message About Offshore Drilling for Obama

This is a guest blog by Pete Stauffer, Environmental Director for Surfrider Foundation. The original post can be found here. SACE is happy to be a partner in helping build grassroots opposition to Atlantic…

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Coal Ash Stories - Coming to Florida This Month!

This article was originally posted on Working Films' blog and is reposted with permission.  We’ve partnered with The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Sierra Club Florida, Waterkeeper Alliance, and Earthjustice to bring Coal…

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3 Reasons Why 2015 Was the Biggest Year Ever for Coal Ash

2015 was a watershed year for our work on coal ash. It's been over seven years since the catastrophic coal ash spill in Kingston, TN and nearly two years since the spill along…

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EPA's Huge Water Pollution Decision and Why They Need to Get it Right

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has an enormously impactful decision to make. By the end of September 2015, EPA is set to update its 30-year-old guidelines for how much pollution states can permit…

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Protecting Florida's Apalachicola River from Coal Ash Pollution

This post was authored by David Guest, Managing Attorney for the Florida office of Earthjustice, a public-interest law firm that represented SACE and our allies in this case. It was originally posted…

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3 Ways to clean up the Asheville coal retirement

This blog was written by John D. Wilson, former Deputy Director for Regulatory Policy at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy with contributions from former SACE staffers Toni Nelson and Amelia Shenstone.