Connect with us: Subscribe to the paper | View the mobile edition | Get daily e-mail news | Get mobile alerts | Share your photos | Report news | Place an ad | Contact us
|
Newer stories | Older stories Utility plans added curbs on mercuryWednesday, July 2, 2008Santee Cooper plans to stick with its effort to build a proposed $1.25 billion coal-fired power plant in Florence County, but will install improved pollution controls to further reduce the amount of poisonous mercury sent up the stacks. At the same time, the state-owned energy company launched a public relations effort Tuesday called "The Real Story on Mercury," which is designed to portray the nation's coal-fired power plants as only a tiny part of the mercury pollution problem. Read story. Blowin’ in the windMonday, June 30, 2008Even in the parching heat of South Carolina's summer sun, the ground at one local industrial site stays saturated. Ankle-deep puddles and muddy gullies dot the landscape at Kinder Morgan Energy Partners' terminal on the Cooper River in Charleston. Workers and computerized spraying systems constantly are wetting the ground, trying to keep particles of coal from escaping into the wind and dusting the surrounding area. Read story. Utility moves on power plant planFriday, April 11, 2008Santee Cooper is busy importing and staging $146 million in building materials near the site of its proposed Pee Dee coal-fired power plant, even though state and federal regulators have yet to sign off on the controversial project. Santee Cooper says that it wants to get the plant online as soon as possible and that buying and storing building materials will speed the construction process if regulators give the project a green light. Read story. Santee Cooper ups cost of coal plantThursday, March 27, 2008The price of gasoline isn't the only thing that's going up. Santee Cooper said Wednesday that the first phase of its proposed Pee Dee coal-fired power plant will cost $1.25 billion, up from its original estimate of $998 million. Read story. Ruling dumps mercury 'credits'Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008In a blow to coal-burning utilities and the Bush administration, a federal appeals court said Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency illegally exempted power companies from tough laws to cut mercury emissions. The decision nixes a controversial plan by the EPA to buy and sell "mercury pollution credits," a program critics say is a multimillion-dollar giveaway to the power industry at the expense of residents near coal plants. ... Read story. County incinerator no longer adds upFriday, Feb. 1, 2008In a move that affects how 330,000 residents get rid of their trash, Charleston County plans to shut its garbage incinerator in 2010 and rely instead on its Bees Ferry Road landfill and a future dump near Adams Run. Read story. Charleston County sees light on recycling bulbsFriday, Feb. 1, 2008It's not always easy being green. When Deborah Hirschhorn tried to throw out fluorescent light bulbs at the county's convenience center in Mount Pleasant, she couldn't find any containers for household hazardous waste. Read story. Attorneys general oppose coal plantTuesday, Jan. 29, 2008Eight attorneys general want South Carolina to nix Santee Cooper's plan for a new coal-fired power generator in the Pee Dee, saying the plant would pump millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the air and undermine their efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. Opposition from these top government prosecutors shows how the high-stakes debate over Santee Cooper's Pee Dee project has landed firmly on the national stage. ... Read story. Mercury pollution goes under DHEC microscopeFriday, Jan. 11, 2008COLUMBIA — Amid rising concerns over mercury, the state has begun an intensive review of mercury pollution that may include a first-ever study into whether the poisonous metal is harming South Carolinians, the state's top health official said Thursday. Read story. Study: Plant would bring millionsFriday, Dec. 14, 2007A controversial $1 billion coal-burning power plant proposed for Florence County would generate hundreds of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in wages for five years before it cranks out its first watt of electricity, according to a study released Thursday by Santee Cooper. The repo... Read story. Dept. of Interior wants coal-fired plant on holdFriday, Dec. 7, 2007The U.S. Department of Interior said approval of Santee Cooper's proposed $1 billion coal-fired power plant needs to be put on hold until a comprehensive analysis is done of potential damage to the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge from mercury fallout and other air pollution that the plant wo... Read story. Public input period extended for proposed Pee Dee coal-fired power plantFriday, Dec. 7, 2007State health officials on Wednesday extended the public comment period for Santee Cooper's permit to build a $1 billion coal-fired power plant after learning it posted the wrong permit draft on its Web site. Several critics of the proposed Pee Dee plant also had asked the state Department ... Read story. Doctors urge DHEC to test people for mercuryWednesday, Dec. 5, 2007State health officials should immediately begin testing people in the so-called "mercury triangle" of the Pee Dee to see if their health is at risk from mercury pollution, a group of Florence County physicians says. The physicians are scheduled to discuss their request Thursday in a press conference at the state health department office in Florence. ... Read story. Households add to mercury crisisSaturday, Nov. 24, 2007One of the worst mercury polluters in the state is Charleston County's trash incinerator off Spruill Avenue. In a typical year, it pumps about 129 pounds out its red and white smokestack. Only four massive coal-fired plants emit more mercury, according to the state Department of Health and Environmental Control. Read story. Meeting held on new coal plantFriday, Nov. 9, 2007Nearly 400 people from across the area converged on this tiny town's high school gym Thursday night, but not to watch the Hannah-Pamplico Raiders play basketball. Read story. Newer stories | Older stories |
Related information
|
||
