Georgia and South Carolina conservation groups today filed papers asking that the South Carolina Supreme Court declare that the S. C. Department of Health and Environmental Control's approval of a controversial project to deepen the Savannah River was illegal. Read more in the press release.
Learn more about this case »The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to obtain a South Carolina pollution control permit for its controversial project to deepen the Savannah River, according to a lawsuit filed today in state court by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of Georgia and South Carolina conservation groups. More details are in the release.
Georgia and South Carolina conservation groups today challenged a South Carolina agency’s approval of a $650 million project to deepen the Savannah River and warned Governor Haley not to destroy evidence concerning her office’s involvement in the matter. Read more in the press release.
Problems cited by South Carolina in its recent denial of a certification for the Savannah Harbor deepening project echoed comments submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by conservation groups in Georgia and South Carolina. Read more in the press release
The Corps’ environmental analysis of the proposed deepening of the Savannah Harbor is either so fundamentally flawed that it must be redone, or it shows that the project is a colossal waste of valuable resources, according to comments submitted today to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, the South Carolina Wildlife Federation, the Center for a Sustainable Coast, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Savannah Riverkeeper. More details are in the press release.
A federal judge declined to enjoin construction of a container shipping terminal in North Charleston for now, but agreed to expand a lawsuit challenging approvals of the terminal to include the Federal Highway Administration (“FHWA”) as a defendant. The Coastal Conservation League, which brought the lawsuit in late 2007, sought an order stopping construction to preserve options for adding rail connections at the terminal. While declining to enjoin construction at this point and allowing the League to refile its request, the Court granted the League’s motion to add claims against FHWA for having ignored rail connections as a means of lessening traffic on Interstate 26. More information is available in the news release.