SC school district won’t let Yale University test playgrounds for toxic chemicals

The Darlington County School District won’t let Yale University researchers test the soil at a school playground for toxins.

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Georgia conservationist returns to SC to lead influential environmental group

Megan Desrosiers, a former Coastal Conservation League staffer, is returning to South Carolina to run the organization after years at a Georgia environmental group

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‘Ridiculous.’ Governor critical of SC agency plan to charge man $2.4M for records

Gov. Henry McMaster has criticized a state agency for telling a citizen it would cost $2.4 million for him to see state pollution records

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Rush to approve mega utility merger could cost SC ratepayers, business group says

A South Carolina small business group with experience in utility rate cases says the state should not set a deadline to decide a proposed mega utility merger

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Online requests expected to ease difficulties for Palmetto Trail hikers at Fort Jackson

A new online procedure should make accessing the Palmetto Trail at Fort Jackson easier

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South Carolina doesn’t make cut for nuclear campus that could provide thousands of jobs

Other states were chosen over South Carolina as finalists for a jobs-rich federally supported nuclear lifecycle campus.

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Questions surface about roles of SC House speaker, Senate president in mega utility merger

South Carolina utility regulators are considering whether a $67 billion merger between Dominion and NextEra is in the public interest.

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After backlash over $2.4 million tab, agency now says it won’t charge man for records

The state’s environmental department won’t charge a citizen for public records, a week after saying the records would cost him $2.4 million

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S.C. agency proposed charging man $2.4 million for school pollution records

A Darlington County man was told he’d have to pay $2.4 million to see public records of pollution at an elementary school

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PSC dismisses questions about sparse environmental studies, OKs big SC gas plant

The state’s public utilities commission weighed in Thursday on a request to halt approval of a huge natural gas plant in Colleton County.

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Richland solar farms junk up once pastoral landscapes, rural landowners say

A group of lower Richland County residents is upset about what they say is a proliferation of solar farms in the Eastover area.

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Hidden study casts doubt on need for nuclear weapons factories in SC, NM, critics say

Environmentalists are asking for the release of a key study that could show whether the nation needs to begin producing nuclear weapons components again

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Power vs. property: SC landowners fight back against energy company over pipeline

Angry property owners have challenged in SC court plans by a pipeline company to force its way onto their property to conduct surveys

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Landowners seek to overturn approval for huge power plant in South Carolina

State utility regulators OK’d a big natural gas plant in SC, despite a lack of information about the environmental impact, critics say

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Troubles arose at SC nuclear plant after workers failed to inspect safety equipment

The V.C. Summer nuclear plant has run afoul of federal regulators after plant inspectors failed for years to maintain key safety equipment

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More than 1,400 acres protected near iconic SC wildlife refuge, fishing village

Conservation groups have saved 1,400 acres from sprawl that’s inching toward McClellanville from the booming Charleston area

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Warning system involving five nuclear plants failed, including one in SC

A system that helps send alerts about possible nuclear emergencies didn’t work at atomic energy plants in five states, including South Carolina

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Santee Cooper steams ahead with plans to restart V.C. Summer nuclear project

The Santee Cooper power company is moving ahead with efforts to restart the failed V.C. Summer nuclear project

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Piney woods near sprawling city protected from development as SC’s sixth state forest

A new state forest is being developed for the public in South Carolina

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SC businesses get a new tool to fight rules that protect public safety

The state of South Carolina will more closely examine the costs of new regulations that protect public health, the environment and safety.

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With negotiations at impasse, greens sue to stop plastic pollution in Congaree River

Legal action against a Columbia, SC area manufacturing plant could stop so-called nurdle pollution in the Congaree River, environmentalist say

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State agency, Richland County OK more than $13 million to expand riverfront preserve

A state agency and Richland County have approved spending more than $13 million to save historic plantation land near the Wateree River from development

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Historic, wildlife-rich plantation near Columbia targeted for state protection

A deal is in the works to acquire part of the old Goodwill Plantation for expansion of a state nature preserve along the Wateree River in Richland County

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Forestry Commission lawyer picked to run SC land protection agency

The general counsel of the S.C. Forestry Commission has been chosen to run the S.C. Conservation Bank, an agency that protects land across South Carolina

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Massive data center plan dropped in SC after latest public outcry against projects

A giant data center won’t be built in Marion County, as proposed, after a public outcry and questions about the availability of power

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Chemicals with toxic bite found in SC crops years after farms used tainted fertilizer

Researchers have found hazardous chemicals in food crops decades after contaminated sludge was spread on farm fields

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Sonic boom mystery deepens as experts debate what shook Columbia last week

Scientists are still trying to determine what caused a sonic boom that shook Columbia last week

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Deer-hunting dogs make life miserable for rural property owners, SC agency told

Deer-hunting dogs — and their owners — are making life miserable for rural landowners, South Carolina neighbors say

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Pipeline company takes SC property owners to court; seeks access to their land

A company trying to extend a natural gas pipe through Georgia and South Carolina has taken resistant landowners to court

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Santee Cooper shows off failed nuclear construction site in SC

Santee Cooper held a tour of the failed V.C. Summer construction site Tuesday as part of a stakeholders meeting.

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