THE LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS DIGEST
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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:
- Change needed to maintain existing bike infrastructure, advocate says
- State Transportation Infrastructure Bank ends Mark Clark Extension project funding
- Reale: How Roadside Blooms became a ‘third place’
- WATCH: Charleston students learn skills building wooden boats, launch in Colonial Lake
- Learning more about South Carolina’s plastic pollution
- Energy bill passes without ratepayer protections
- SC passes legislation to boost free-market EV charging stations
- Charleston County wants a more robust process for greenbelt funds to stop overspending
- Judge rules in favor of Lowcountry environmental groups on new septic systems
- Mark Clark Extension might be dead, but other local road projects sprouted from the effort
- New South Carolina law allows recreational red snapper-grouper species fishing year-round
- Charleston Parks Conservancy Expands Groundbreaking Food Forest Initiative
- A 2,700-acre Lowcountry parcel once slated for massive development is now protected
- Charleston has a new seawall plan. Here’s what the city needs to do to move it forward.
- ICYMI
- How coastal SC residents transform anxiety over climate change into productive action
- Sea level rise and frequent tides: understanding Charleston’s increasing coastal flooding
- City of Charleston launches the first-ever environmental corridor in Southeast
- REPORT: LCV’s annual National Environmental Scorecard
- Paper, plastic, metal: SC app shows what, where and how to recycle
- A patchwork of single-use plastic bans exist across Charleston. What’s banned near you?
- Crisis in the Carolinas: Racial Disparities, the Climate Catastrophe and Environmental Racism and in the Lowcountry
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May 28th: Daniel Island: Daniel Island Recreation Center
May 29th: Johns Island: Haut Gap Middle School
- MAY 22: 15th Annual Harvest Dinner
- MAY 23-26: Maybee Fest 2025
- JUN 6: 4th Annual Black Moses Freedom Festival (PENN Center)
- JUN 20: Center For Heirs Property Preservation 20th Annual Gala
- JUL 26-27: Folly Beach Wahine Classic
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