General Info

For more than 20 years, the Southern Environmental Law Center has used the law to conserve clean water, healthy air, wild lands and livable communities throughout the Southeast region of the United States. As one of the largest and powerful environmental organizations headquartered in the South, SELC is able to work simultaneously in all three branches of government, and in all of its focus states, to comprehensively address the problems facing its region. Partnering with national groups, the company defends fundamental federal safeguards. The company s focus states include Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Its projects include a variety of campaigns for better living, such as healthy air, clean water, clean land and communities, upkeep of southern forests and the upkeep of the coast and wetlands. Southern Environmental Law Center is headquartered in Charlottesville, Va.