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Environmental Justice

SCSJ’s Statement on Appeal in Moriah Energy Center Case

ROUGEMONT, N.C. (Jan. 13, 2025) — Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) released the following statement alongside its appeal in Clayton, et al. v. Person County. The case challenges Person County’s rezoning of parcels from rural residential and conservation designations to industrial zoning for the plans of Enbridge – formerly Dominion Energy – to construct…

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moriah energy center site with hazard sign transposed beside it to highlight the danger the liquified methane storage facility poses to the community and environment
Justice System Reform

Locals Fight Back Against Secret Deal to Relocate Edenton Confederate Monument to Chowan County Courthouse 

EDENTON, N.C. (Jan. 3, 2025) –– A group of Eastern North Carolina residents is suing the Town of Edenton and the Chowan County Board of Commissioners over their secret plan to move the town’s controversial Confederate monument to the Chowan County Courthouse.  Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) filed a lawsuit Friday, Jan. 3, 2025,…

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Edenton Confederate Monument with large x covering it to demonstrate that its racist origins are unjust.

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— Mitchell Brown, SOLVE Network Coordinator and Senior Counsel for Voting Rights at SCSJ

Our Cases

Aerial View of the Roanoke River Lighthouse in Edenton North Carolina

JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORM

Move the Monument Coalition Edenton-Chowan

SCSJ and Emancipate NC are assisting the Move the Monument Coalition Edenton-Chowan in their fight to remove a Confederate soldier statute from the town’s historic waterfront.

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VOTING RIGHTS

Petteway v. Galveston County

SCSJ filed a challenge to the Galveston County Commissioners' 2021 precinct map in April 2022 on behalf of three local NAACP branches, the local Galveston LULAC Council 151, and three Black and Latino voters, in partnership with co-counsel from Texas Civil Rights Project and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Clayton, et. al. v. Person County

SCSJ is challenging Person County's rezoning of parcels from rural residential and conservation designations to industrial zoning. Dominion Energy’s plans to construct and operate the proposed Moriah Energy Center (MEC) liquified methane storage facility on the rezoned parcels.

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