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North Coast Newsletter: Lazin’ on the Lynches
Tuesday, July 18, 2023By Becky Ryon, North Coast Office Director
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A new plan for statewide resilience
Wednesday, July 12, 2023Blazing a trail for resilience in South Carolina We’re thrilled that the South Carolina Office of Resilience has released its Strategic Statewide Resilience and Risk Reduction Plan after working with hundreds of stakeholders to inform our state’s resilient path forward. Our Conservation League staff served on various ad hoc committees, contributing to some of the 54 recommendations that came out…
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Commentary: Edge Road Mine decision is a mistake
Tuesday, July 11, 2023By Trapper Fowler, North Coast Project Manager South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) made a mistake approving Edge Road mine and the general public should be concerned. Soilutions LLC half-heartedly addressed concerns for wildlife and hydrological impacts. But what about concerns related to best management practices for spotted turtles, groundwater monitoring wells on Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve, larger buffers on the preserve, donation of the mine after reclamation…
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Faith’s Focus: Notes from the Coastal Plain
Thursday, July 6, 2023By Faith Rivers James, Executive Director In less than a month, I will celebrate my one-year anniversary as Executive Director of the Coastal Conservation League. What a year it has been! We’ve continued to make a significant impact on the future of our coast, and I have been honored to be a part of the work this year. Just in the last few months, we’ve advocated for and supported citizens seeking to protect their neighborhood…
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Submit Comments: Support the Compromise for Hwy 41
Thursday, July 6, 2023The Compromise Alternative for Highway 41 seeks to limit impacts to both nature and community. The compromise has reached a new phase in the approval process: Charleston County and their design and engineering consultants have submitted plans to the Army Corps of Engineers and the S.C. Department of Health & Environmental Control to review and issue the necessary permits. You can help advance this balanced approach to improving Highway 41 by submitting comments in support of…
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Commentary: SC 41 compromise minimizes environmental impact, protects Phillips community
Thursday, June 29, 2023This commentary was originally published in the Post and Courier. By Faith Rivers James, Executive Director of the Coastal Conservation League and Chris DeScherer, S.C. Office Director of the Southern Environmental Law Center Opposition has been expressed recently over the current plans for S.C. Highway 41, referred to as the “compromise alternative” or “road to compromise.” Some of that opposition has focused on environmental impacts of the proposal and, specifically, the wetland impacts it would…
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Partner Opinion: Golf Resort on Pine Island is a Non-Starter
Wednesday, June 28, 2023This opinion article was originally published in The Island News By Marie Gibbs In a recent Island Packet exclusive, the new owner of Pine Island stated his intentions to use golf as a “vehicle to empower economic progress” on St. Helena Island. That all sounds fine and well, but here is the catch: golf courses, resorts, and gated communities have been illegal on St. Helena Island since 1999, and they are still illegal today. These land uses are…
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Mining Should Not Be Allowed Next to a Heritage Preserve
Friday, June 23, 2023This week, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control approved a permit application to operate a mine on the border of Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve. We are extremely concerned about this decision and the impacts it will have on the hydrology of Lewis Ocean Bay, as well as important habitat for Venus flytraps and salamanders that require specific moisture levels to survive. This heritage preserve has a…
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Commentary: Best time to prevent septic tank pollution is before the tank is installed
Sunday, June 18, 2023This op-ed was written for the Post & Courier by Land. Water, Wildlife Program Director, Riley Egger and Charleston Waterkeeper Executive Director, Andrew Wunderley. The writing is on the water: Outdated septic tank policies and regulatory inaction cost our coastal communities money, threaten our health and leave our waterways polluted. When septic tanks overflow into waterways due to lax regulations and requirements, our communities, environment and economies…
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North Coast Newsletter: Heading to the Beach
Friday, June 16, 2023Welcome to the June 2023 issue of the North Coast newsletter! School’s out and summer is (almost) here, so let’s go to the beach! In June, we recognize World Oceans Day (June 8) and Juneteenth…