Keeping Chelsea Rural
The almost 6,000-acre Chelsea property sold in 2019 for $30 million dollars to two brothers who pledged to manage the land as a hunting estate. Since then, the land transferred to a Missouri-based bank and has been shopped around to developers. Several large tracts have been targeted by developers, including 3,000 acres of Chelsea and the 1520-acre Tickton […]
Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve
Fire, smoke and hospitals do not mix! Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve is perhaps the most unique and biodiverse ecosystem in South Carolina, home to the state’s only stable population of Venus flytraps, which are native to the Carolinas and nowhere else in the world! Conway Medical Center is proposing to build a new hospital […]
Redevelopment of Union Pier
Union Pier is a roughly 65-acre waterfront site downtown Charleston. It’s owned by the South Carolina Ports Authority, and has been used for shipping, port operations, and a cruise terminal. The Ports Authority ended its homeport contract with Carnival Cruise Lines and will only support short-term port-of-calls starting in 2025. As a result, a large […]
Google Groundwater Permit
Google Background Google first applied to triple its allotted groundwater withdrawal from 183 to 549 million gallons (MG) per year in 2016 in order to cool servers at its data center in Berkeley County. The request was met with swift and strong opposition from the public and the conservation community. As a result, the tech […]
Crab Bank Restoration
Consider this your one-stop shop for the most current information we have on the Crab Bank restoration project. It doesn’t take much: You can rent a kayak and paddle in 15 minutes to one of the few places on the Atlantic coast where you can watch sea and shorebirds nesting — right here in South […]
Charleston County Half-Cent Sales Tax Referendum
Charleston County voters passed a referendum on November 8th, 2016 for a half-cent sales tax increase to fund road projects, mass transit, and the greenbelt program. The referendum puts the local sales tax rate at 9% — higher than the cities of Atlanta, Charlotte, and New York City — raising $2.1 billion over twenty-five years. […]
Captain Sams Spit
Captain Sams Spit, a beautiful sandy inlet at the southern end of Kiawah Island, is a highly mobile piece of land. Eroding and accreting regularly, this property is vital to important endangered and threatened wildlife species — including the piping plover, diamondback terrapin, and bottlenose dolphins — for nesting and/or feeding. This valuable coastal gem is […]
Stop the I-526 Extension
The I-526 Mark Clark Extension project is officially no more. The S.C. Transportation Infrastructure Bank Board voted unanimously May 2025 to end the three-way funding contract. This is one of the final pieces to affirm the end of this destructive road project. After months – and many years- of community opposition, including voting down a […]
Deveaux Bank
Over the years, DNR has been concerned about the lack of nesting success for black skimmers on Deveaux Bank, one of three seabird sanctuaries managed by the agency. Until recently on Deveaux, the intertidal zone has been open to the public, and above the high tide line is off limits. These are the very zones […]
Cruise Ships in Charleston
Over the years, the South Carolina State Ports Authority (SPA) has increased cruise ship operations and applied for permits to build a new passenger terminal vastly larger than the current one. This has a direct impact on Charleston and because of this, the Conservation League is working for local and state regulations of cruise operations. […]