#selc — Public Fediverse posts

Both the NAACP and the Southern Environmental Law Center worked together to document the timeline of events and xAIs fucking up local air quality.

They had aerial photographers take thermal images of the facility catching Musk's company red handed building an unregistered private power plant.

https://www.selc.org/news/inside-memphis-fight-against-xai/

#SELC #NAACP #xAI #Musk #CleanAir #EnvironmentalLaw #CourtWatch #AI #datacenter

#DOJ, #Mississipi, ask #court to #dismiss suit by #NAACP re: data center in #Memphis, an #asthma capital of USA.
-> When filed, the xAI #DataCenter was illegally using 27 #GasTurbines, spewing #pollution & poisonous #chemicals. Since then, the #SELC (Southern #Environmental Law Center) "obtained emails showing that xAI added even more #turbines after the #lawsuit was filed, bringing the total number to 57."
#fascist #USA #ChildPornGrok #EPA #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
https://www.engadget.com/2195032/doj-backs-xai-naacp-data-center-pollution-lawsuit/

The Drinking Water Crisis That North Carolina Ignored

For decades, #DuPont dumped toxic PFAS into North Carolina’s #CapeFearRiver. Today, the local community is suffering the health consequences—and fighting back.

June 7, 2021

[...]

"The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (#NCDEQ) filed a lawsuit against #Chemours in 2017—but only in response to bad press—and last fall, the state attorney general filed another. And yet, North Carolina is currently reviewing its water quality standards, something it does every three years, but not one rule for PFAS pollution is even up for consideration. 'People know they’re being poisoned, but the state isn’t doing much about it,' Bell says.

"So residents have been taking matters into their own hands. In July 2018, #CapeFearRiverWatch, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (#SELC), sued the #NCDEQ to force Chemours to immediately stop polluting the Cape Fear River. The following month, the pair also filed a federal lawsuit against Chemours for violating the #CleanWaterAct and #ToxicSubstancesControlAct, but it was dropped later in the year as part of a $13 million #settlement among the NCDEQ, Cape Fear River Watch, and Chemours. The settlement resulted in a consent order that required Chemours to cease its discharges and add #scrubbers to its smokestacks to prevent airborne PFAS pollution. The outcome is a critical step in preventing future PFAS pollution, but NCDEQ has had to fine the company for not complying with the order, and its past contamination, still lingering in the #water, #soil, and peoples’ bodies, remains unaddressed."

Read more:
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/drinking-water-crisis-north-carolina-ignored

#PFASPollution #WaterIsLife
#OceansAreLife #PollutionRunoff #WebOfLife #SoilPollution #Cancer #AirPollution

Finally sat down to watch this excellent video on worker self-directed non-profits, which begins with a very insightful critique of dynamics in a typical non-profit.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uU1w9uXGGLY

#selc

New blog post: "Mapping the Changing Coast with the Southern Environmental Law Center."

In 2022 we had the pleasure of sitting down with #JovianSackett from the #SELC to talk about our collaboration on "The Changing Coast" and the work Jovian does more broadly. The conversation ranged from the decisions that went into making the map, communicating with data, and the data questions that keep Jovian up at night.

Transcript: https://stamen.com/mapping-the-changing-coast-with-the-southern-environmental-law-center/

#Environment #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise

Coopalooza! Another great idea from the #SELC folks.

https://www.theselc.org/interdependence_worker_cooperative_advocacy_and_the_movement?utm_campaign=coopalooza_week

Just saw this on the new GEO site -- got to watch it later. Sustainable Economies Law Center's vision of our cooperative future!

https://geo.coop/story/video-selcs-vision-cooperative-future

#SELC
#cooperatives
#future
#SpeculativeFiction

I just found this today while researching #selc, who has a really radical take on compensation and self-governance.

> Every member of our organization is compensated equally for their work - whether an attorney or not. That salary is based on two objective measures of our local economy - the average Oakland income and a regional living wage indicator calculated by the Economic Policy Institute.

http://www.theselc.org/new-economy-in-practice