Southern environmental law center

Mission : To protect the basic right to clean air, clean water, and a livable climate; to preserve our region’s natural treasures and rich biodiversity; and to provide a healthy environment for all. It is the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan environmental legal advocacy organization rooted in and focused on the South.

As lawyers, policy and issue experts, and community advocates and partners, we take on the toughest challenges to protect our air, water, land, wildlife, and the people who live here. And we win.

Transforming our region away from fossil fuel to clean energy, righting environmental injustice, stopping pollution, and protecting nature—When we solve these issues here, we lead the way for others.

That’s why we say, Solutions start in the South. [[1]]

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