Southside landed on the Southern Environmental Law Center’s fourth annual Top 10 Endangered Places in the Southeast list since of proposed uranium mining and pressure to lift Virginia’s uranium moratorium.
Many of the areas on SELC’s top 10 list are endangered by pressure to undercut environmental protections and to lower the hurdles for potentially critical projects, according to a news release.
Anti-environmental forces are working in Congress, state legislatures and government agencies under the guise of promoting financial growth, said Marie Hawthorne, SELC’s director of development, in a statement. “The truth is, environmental defense had nothing to do with the financial crisis or today’s weak economy,” Hawthorne added. “Doing away with efficient laws and enforcement will accomplish nothing except sacrifice the natural treasures like those on our Top 10 list and other possessions that make the South such a great place live, work, and raise our families. We owe it to ourselves — and to prospect generations — to make sure this doesn’t happen.”
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