THE LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS DIGEST
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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:
- Hazardous pellets, harmful chemicals discharging to Congaree River, group says
- Infrastructure isn’t considered for Charleston County zoning requests. Here’s how that may change.
- Charleston County leaders to deny zoning request amid surge in developments
- Nature at Work well-being initiative launches in South Carolina
- $2.8M grant to fund 5,000 acres of coastal wetland conservation for SC birds (and humans)
- The South Carolina Aquarium recorded 4 million pieces of litter in the Litter Journal
- Charleston addresses preservation and flooding in update to proposal for MUSC’s innovation district
- SCDOT almost at final design completion with Lowcountry Rapid Transit System
- Demolition proposal of property on Meeting Street deferred
- GRANT OPPORTUNITY: SC Champions of the Environment grants
- GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Environmental Education Association of South Carolina (EEASC) Mini-Grant funding
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- ICYMI
- SC Aquarium program enables Lowcountry residents to help track sea level rise. Here’s how.
- Food insecurity deepens in Charleston area
- Sea level rise and frequent tides: understanding Charleston’s increasing coastal flooding
- 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 in the Lowcountry
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- SEP 25: CCC Monthly Meeting
- SEP 25-28: The Hope Summit
- SEP 27: Birds of a Feather
- SEP 27: SC Native Plant Society Fall Native Plant Market
- SEP 27: Land Conservation Public Forum at the Center for Conservation
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