environment

Thomas Friedman writes in The New York Times: So Graham’s approach to bringing around his conservative state has been simple: avoid talking about “climate change,” which many on the right don’t believe. Instead, frame our energy challenge as a need to “clean up carbon pollution,” to “become energy independent” and to “create more good jobs and new industries for South Carolinians.” More

Current Electric Vehicles is showing off their line of all-electric cars in Mount Pleasant today and giving folks a chance to come and play with ... err, test drive one. More

Over the next 18 months, SCE&G wants to rais electricity rates some 9.5% in anticipation of more expensive electricity generation costs. More

While South Carolina has warnings to not eat or limit how much you eat of certain types of fish from specific waterbodies, the state's DHEC has been reluctant to issue a statewide ban on eating bass due to widespread mercury contamination. More

Rather than constantly dredging, the City Marina Co. wants to add more wet slips for boats. It's better for the company's pocket book and better for the environment. More

Shifting and outright disappearing coastlines are just a couple of the problems that will haunt South Carolina as the earth warms. More

Thanks largely to sharing the docket with the new city budget and some stiff skepticism, action has been deferred on the proposed Charleston Green Plan. More

A study conducted by the Environmental Working Group looked at water quality records since 2004, and the results pegged Charleston as having the fourth best water in the nation, for a city. More