Taxonomy Archives: South Carolina
Case Filed to Protect Waccamaw River from Coal Waste’s Arsenic Contamination
The Southern Environmental Law Center today filed suit to stop arsenic contamination of the Waccamaw River and groundwater at the Grainger facility of Santee Cooper (the South Carolina Public Service ...
Corps’ Flawed Study Shows $650M Deepening of Savannah River Unnecessary and Wasteful
The Corps’ flawed final analysis shows that the proposed deepening of the Savannah River would be a $650 million waste of valuable public resources and leave the river forever dependent on giant mecha...
Medical & Health Groups File Suit to Protect Limits on Mercury, Air Toxic Pollution
Today five professional medical societies and public health groups took legal action to support public health safeguards that reduce mercury and toxic air pollution from power plants.
Groups Ask S. C. Supreme Court to Revoke Savannah Deepening Approval
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 cont...
Polluters Move to Block Landmark Mercury Protections
Today representatives of the nation’s dirtiest polluters and their friends at special interest groups like the National Mining Association, filed the first lawsuits to block long overdue action to cle...
Study: Southeast biomass has carbon spike before long-term climate benefits
A new study of southeastern forests in the U.S. finds that in the long run, burning wood instead of fossil fuels to make electricity can reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but not ...
Corps Not Exempt from Pollution Controls on Savannah Deepening Project
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 cour...
Case Filed to Protect Wateree River from Coal Waste Contamination
On behalf of the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, the Southern Environmental Law Center today filed suit to stop contamination of the Wateree River, nearby groundwater, and wetlands by coal ash lagoons...
First air standards slash levels of mercury and other toxins
EPA today provided long overdue and vitally important health protections for American families and children by issuing standards for toxic air pollution from power plants, said the Southern Environmen...
New Lease Sale Ignores BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
The federal government ignored the impact of BP’s 200 million gallon oil spill in its assessment of risks and precautions for the Gulf of Mexico before the first new lease sale since the Deepwater Hor...