Chapters
Under the BREDL banner, thousands of concerned citizens have made their mark for environmental justice. Our chapters have raised public awareness and have won many battles against environmentally damaging projects and proposals throughout the southeast.
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Watauga Watershed Alliance
Our mission is to to investigate and act against threats to our watershed and hold elected officials accountable.
CHAPTER WEBSITE >Unicoi Clear
Summers-Taylor Materials Company, a large, well-connected, 80-year-old company in Northeast Tennessee, owns four parcels of land (50.01, .02, .03, and .04 at left) totaling 15 acres on Buffalo Mountain in the Town of Unicoi, all zoned Agricultural. Asphalt operations are grandfathered-in on one of those parcels (the 2-acre 50.03). The company has a State air…
VIEW DETAILS >Stop The Moriah Energy Center
Citizens of Person County are fighting of Dominion Energy’s proposed liquified natural gas (LNG) storage facility in Rougemont, NC. The facility would initially store 25 million gallons of LNG in an otherwise rural, wooded area. The site sits in close proximity to homes and a number of different threatened aquatic species. We are asking the…
VIEW DETAILS >Pamplico Defense League
The Pamplico Defense League was formed to fight a pipeline known as the River Neck to Kingsburg and also known as the Pamplico Pipeline. The proposed pipeline not only crosses several tributaries to the Pee Dee River, it also passes through heirs’ property belonging to the descendants of former slavers and other working-class residents. BREDL…
VIEW DETAILS >Pittsylvania County Preservation League
Pittsylvania County Preservation League was formed for the purpose of stopping the Southgate extension to the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The extension is planned to connect to the southern terminus of the MVP at Transco Village in Chatham, VA, then run parallel to the existing Transco pipeline for 26 miles in Pittsylvania County. The Southgate’s…
VIEW DETAILS >Coalition for a Clean Dan River Region
The Coalition for a Clean Dan River Region was formed in 2020 by a group of concerned citizens living near the First Piedmont Landfill in Ringold, VA. The landfill was first permitted to accept “sanitary” waste in the early 1970’s. Soon thereafter, the owners of the landfill attempted to secure a permit to accept hazard…
VIEW DETAILS >Concerned Citizens of Richmond County
Concerned Citizens of Richmond County was formed by a group of citizens who were fighting a proposed sand mining facility, as well as a wood pellet processing facility, each of which planned to locate in their community. Contacts: Debra David Therese Vick
VIEW DETAILS >Piney Grove League for Change
The Piney Grove League for Change is currently working on air quality and environmental justice issues relating to a fire that occurred at the Weaver Fertilizer Company in Winston-Salem on January 31, 2022. The Winston Weaver Fertilizer Company had more than 600 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate stored on site; most of which sat…
VIEW DETAILS >Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment (CHASE)
The Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment (CHASE) group was formed by long time civil rights activists and Lithonia residents in July 2010 when they were notified about a proposed biomass incinerator. The group’s first meetings were hosted by member Johnny Dougherty, now deceased. BREDL has provided the group with technical assistance throughout their…
VIEW DETAILS >Snow Camp Environmental Defense League (SCEDL)
Founded in the late 1700’s by Pennsylvania Quakers, Snow Camp, NC is a rural, agricultural community in Alamance County with a rich history associated with opposition to slavery and home to Regulators whose opposition to the British led up to the Revolutionary War. Today’s Snow Camp has grown up around the original Quaker Village where…
CHAPTER WEBSITE >Concerned Citizens of Shell Bluff
Concerned Citizens of Shell Bluff was formed in 2010 to fight the expansion of a nuclear power plant. Shell Bluff, a rural, majority-black, community in eastern Georgia, is home to the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (commonly known as Plant Vogtle). Plant Vogtle, Georgia’s largest nuclear plant, is among the largest nuclear power plants…
VIEW DETAILS >Chatham-Lee Environmental Action Network (formerly Environmental Lee)
Chatham Lee Environmental Network addresses issues in Chatham and Lee counties in North Carolina. Fracking, coal ash, forever chemicals like PFAS, and 1,4 dioxane are some of the environmental threats they address. CLEAN Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentaLEE
VIEW DETAILS >Preserve Bent Mountain/Roanoke
We a citizen advocacy group (based in Roanoke, Virginia) formed in opposition to the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC (MVP). We maintain that the placement of this pipeline will adversely affect the quality of life in all areas it transects.
CHAPTER WEBSITE >Chapel Hill Organization for Clean Energy (CHOCE)
Concerned about unhealthy and unsustainable combustion energy (currently coal, gas, pellets, and methane) used in the UNC on-site power plant facilities and the coal ash disposal site located under the Chapel Hill police station.
VIEW DETAILS >Sustainable Madison
Sustainable Madison is a non-profit composed of Madison County residents and property owners who believe in the practice of Earth stewardship by our members, our government and the public.
CHAPTER WEBSITE >Protect Caswell
Dedicated to concerns regarding quarry and asphalt/concrete plant in Caswell County, NC.
CHAPTER WEBSITE >Friends of the Deep River
We formed to protect, restore, and enhance the Deep River in Piedmont, NC that touches us personally.
VIEW DETAILS >Bellefonte Efficiency & Sustainability Team (BEST)
The purpose of this chapter is to work together to safeguard the environmental quality of our Tennessee Valley region (parts of TN, AL and GA) and the health of its people.
CHAPTER WEBSITE >Preserve Franklin
Our name and mission to be in synch with others which lie along the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline route.
CHAPTER WEBSITE >Madison County Clean Power Coalition
Our mission is to find solutions to problems associated with the GRP Madison Biomass Power Plant, advocate for communities polluted by the processing and burning of toxic creosote treated railroad ties used as fuel for power generation.
CHAPTER WEBSITE >Virginians For Appropriate Roads (VAR)
Virginians for Appropriate Roads is a grassroots organization working to protect the integrity of our farmlands, forests and rural communities by supporting fiscally conservative and environmentally sound transportation policies.
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