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SELC in Brief — Clean Air Month edition

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  EPA rollbacks push the South toward dirtier air and higher health risks May is Clean Air Month. With a warming climate and the Trump administration rolling back critical regulations, air quality is getting worse for millions of Americans — especially for children and communities of color who bear the greatest impacts of pollution.  Read the story for the state of clean air in the South, plus learn how SELC is tackling dirty air from confronting the ethylene oxide emergency to addressing soot pollution standards. Read More Pursuing plastic polluters Charleston’s waterways are littered with “nurdles,” tiny plastic pellets that spill from shipping and manufacturing sites into our marshes, beaches, and rivers. Our legal work is revealing the scale of this pollution and why stopping it at the source is essential. Inside the greater Memphis area's fight against xAI A comprehensive timeline sheds light on our years-long push for accountability, transparency, and clean air from this...

We’re taking on the South’s data center buildout

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  SHARED FOR EDUCATION AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE ADVERSE IMPACTS  OF DATA CENTERS AND THEIR DECEPTIVE TACTICS! Tell me if this sounds acceptable to you:  A private company comes into your community to build a data center. To get it done, they cut secret deals with local governments. They hide information about the project from your neighbors. And when that data center does get built, it spews air pollution, generates constant noise, sucks up your community’s water, and gets fueled by dirty methane gas.    Meanwhile, your power bill keeps going up.  It all sounds like a movie plot, but this is how data centers are getting built in communities across the South. It’s why SELC, powered by your generosity, is developing a playbook for fighting back.  And it’s why I’m humbly asking for your support today.  Your advocacy is so important to SELC’s mission, and now a group of donors will match your gift $1 for $1 to help us pump the brakes on data centers....