Law Library
These are selected legal documents filed by SELC staff in 2007 and 2008. You can also view filings from 2000-2006. All files are in PDF format. Some are very large and may take some time to download, depending on your Internet connection.
Browse the 2007-2008 library by program area: Healthy Air, Clean Water, Southern Forests, Land and Community, Coast and Wetlands
Healthy Air
- Notice of Appeal: Virginia Electric and Power Company: For certificate to construct and operate electric generation facility in Wise County, VA
- April 18 , 2008
- SELC comments to VA Department of Environmental Quality on draft mercury permit for proposed Dominion Power coal-plant in Wise County
- April 18 , 2008
- SELC brief to the Virginia State Corporation Commission
In regards to the application of Virginia Electric and Power Co. for a Certificate to Construct and Operate an Electric Generaion Facility in Wise County, VA, and for Approval of a Rate Adjustment Clause Under Virginia Code - March 19 , 2008
- SELC comment letter to Virginia Department of Environmental Quality regarding draft permit issued to Dominion Virginia to build 585-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Wise County, Virginia.
- March 12 , 2008
- Application for Rehearing and Immediate Stay
- November 5, 2007
- Application for immediate stay and rehearing of the Order of the U.S. Department of Energy on Final Designation of two National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors. Application filed on behalf of SELC, the Piedmont Environmental Council, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and others.
- Testimonies of David Schlissel, Douglas Cortez and Philip Mosenthal
- November 8 , 2007
- Expert testimony against Dominion Virginia Power, filed with the State Corporation Commission in regards to a proposed coal-fired power plant in Wise County. Testimonies on behalf of the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition.
- SELC letter to US Department of Energy
- July 6, 2007
- Comment letter outlining violations of numerous federal laws by DOE for proposed "national interest electrict transmission corridors." Letter on behalf of American Lung Association of Virginia, New Jersey Audubon, Virginia Conservation Network, and others.
- SELC letter to South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
- March 15, 2007
- Letter on behalf of seven South Carolina groups stating objections to Santee Cooper's proposed Pee Dee coal-fired power plant and advocating for energy efficiency and/or IGCC under Clean Air Act's "BACT" requirements
Clean Water
- Petition to revisit "biological opinion" of 1996
- January 15 , 2008
- Petition, filed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Office of Surface Mining, demands a closer look at the impacts of coal mining, including mountaintop removal, on the nation's threatened and endangered wildlife.
- Petition for a Contested Case Hearing on Catawba-Yadkin Interbasin Transfer
- March 28, 2007
- Petition challenging certificate issued by NC Environmental Management Commission et al granting applicant cities Concord and Kannapolis permission to transfer 20 million gallons of water a day.
Southern Forests
- State of Tennessee (et al) v. Lahiere-Hill L.L.C.
- April 14, 2008
- SELC is co-counsel on an amicus brief in support of Tennessee to prevent rock harvesting in the Cumberland Trail State Park; we are representing 14 conservation groups.
- Notice of Intent (60-day) to Sue; Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns et al; for Clean Water Act violations at Tellico ORV area in Nantahala National Forest
- June 28, 2007
- SELC is representing the North Carolina and Tennessee Councils of Trout Unlimited, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project; see also Exhibits attached to this NOI letter.
Land and Community
- SELC
comment letter to NC Environmental Review Commission
Letter regarding the Safe Artifical Slope Construction Act (HB1756). - February 1, 2008
- SELC
comment letter to Virginia Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration
Letter regarding Final Environmental Impact Statement on plans to improve Interstate 81 through Virginia. - May 7, 2007
- SELC comment letter to North Carolina state reprentatives Fisher, Goforth, Haire and Rapp
- May 2, 2007
- Comments on the state's draft Mountain Slope Construction Act
- SELC comment letter to Asheville Planning and Zoning Advisory Board
- April 18, 2007
- Comments on city's proposed steep slope ordinance
- SELC comment letter to Albemarle County VA, Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission and Virginia Department of Transportation
- March 23, 2007
- Comments on draft "Places29" master plan for U.S. Route 29 North
