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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Bellefonte Efficiency & Sustainability Team (BEST)

Cumberland, Hamilton and Jackson Counties
Tennessee

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.

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Chapel Hill Organization for Clean Energy (CHOCE)

Orange County
North Carolina

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.

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Chatham-Lee Environmental Action Network (formerly Environmental Lee)

Chatham and Lee Counties
North Carolina

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…

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Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment (CHASE)

Lithonia
Georgia

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…

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Concerned Citizens of Shell Bluff

Burke County
Georgia

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…

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Friends of the Deep River

Guilford County
North Carolina

We formed to protect, restore, and enhance the Deep River in Piedmont, NC that touches us personally.

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Madison County Clean Power Coalition

Madison County
Georgia

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.

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Piney Grove League for Change

Forsyth County
North Carolina

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…

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Preserve Bent Mountain/Roanoke

Roanoke County
Virginia

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.

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Preserve Franklin

Franklin County
Virginia

Our name and mission to be in synch with others which lie along the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline route.