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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Cheap at any price!	David Roberts	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
More news from the world of cheap coal: Santee Cooper said Wednesday that the first phase of its proposed Pee Dee coal-fired power plant [in Florence County, South Carolina] will cost $1.25 billion, up from its original estimate of $998 million. Even that may be under-stating it: Blan Holman, a lawyer for the Southern Environmental Law Center, said Santee Cooper's $1.25 billion price tag is 'still a lowball' that 'doesn't even include the big rise in coal pric ...
Topics: South Carolina, energy, coal (all these topics)

Let the games begin Ragtag youth and ABEC face off in South Carolina	Youth Movement	23 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Photo: iStockphoto On the eve of the South Carolina Democratic primary, some battles are being fought on stage, and others in the parking lot. This primary season, leading up to arguably the most important presidential election in recent history, has been a circus. Even outside the candidate events, voters waiting in line to cheer Huckabee or Obama might see confederate-flag-jacket-donning Ron Paul supporters espouse southern pride, orange-shirted vol ...
Topics: climate, coal, elections, energy, grassroots activism, politics, presidential race 08, South Carolina (all these topics)

Connect the Plots Land corridors encourage biodiversity, says research in Science		05 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Connect the Plots Land corridors encourage biodiversity, says research in Science Narrow strips of land that connect isolated natural areas encourage plant biodiversity, according to a new study in Science. The study confirms what ecologists have theorized for decades -- that areas connected by land corridors "retain more native species than do isolated patches, that this difference increases over time, and that corrido ...
Topics: news, South Carolina, wildlife (all these topics)

Death Be Not Toxic Green Burials Catch on Amongst the Eco-Friendly Set		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Death Be Not Toxic Green Burials Catch on Amongst the Eco-Friendly Set It's no longer enough to live an eco-friendly life; now, the greenest of the green are planning for their own eco-friendly deaths. A small but growing number of people are seeking out burial in green cemeteries. Ramsey Creek Preserve in Westminster, S.C., is one such spot, a 35-acre expanse of woodla ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, South Carolina, toxics, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Turtle Wane		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Turtle Wane Having depleted their own nation's once-plentiful turtle populations, Chinese buyers are now offering top dollar for turtles from the southern U.S. In the last three years, there's been a dramatic upswing in the number of turtles exported to China, where the animals' meat is considered a delicacy and their shells are ground up to make virility powders. In 2002, ...
Topics: Alabama, China, marine life, Mississippi, North Carolina, South, South Carolina (all these topics)

Honey, I Shrunk the Budget		06 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Honey, I Shrunk the Budget As states across the nation face massive budget shortfalls, many are aiming their axes at environmental and conservation programs. In South Carolina, for instance, the state legislature is considering cutting $16 million from conservation programs to help balance its upcoming budget. The South Carolina Wildlife Federation yesterday urged state legislators to protect t ...
Topics: Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, renewable energy, South Carolina (all these topics)

Have Plutonium, Will Travel	Suzy Becker	30 Sep 2002	Ha.

Topics: Colorado, nuclear power, pollution and waste, South Carolina (all these topics)

Grim Jim		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Grim Jim Six tons of weapons-grade plutonium can continue on its way to South Carolina, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The decision, which upheld a lower court ruling, was a blow to Gov. Jim Hodges (D), who has vociferously protested storing the waste in his state. Hodges argued that the Department of Energy needed to conduct more thorough environmental stud ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Hodging His Bets		14 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Hodging His Bets The U.S. government could begin moving radioactive plutonium from Colorado into South Carolina's Savannah River nuclear complex as soon as this weekend, following a federal judge's refusal yesterday afternoon to block the shipments. Gov. Jim Hodges (D) has vowed to appeal the ruling, and maintains that he won't allow the plutonium into South Carolina until he has a legal guaran ...
Topics: Colorado, nuclear power, pollution and waste, South Carolina (all these topics)

Carolina in Their Minds		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Carolina in Their Minds The Bush administration is unhappy about a new ad campaign attacking its plan to move some 30 tons of plutonium from Colorado to South Carolina for temporary storage. The campaign was launched last week by South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D), who opposes the plan, fearing that his state could become the permanent resting grounds for the rad ...
Topics: Colorado, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Let It Allard Hang Out		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Let It Allard Hang Out The plot thickens in the controversy over the federal government's decision to ship weapons-grade plutonium from Colorado to South Carolina for temporary storage. Arms-control advocates and Democratic politicians in South Carolina allege that the Bush administration is backing a shipment plan in order to improve the re-election prospects of Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo ...
Topics: Colorado, North Carolina, nuclear power, politics, South Carolina (all these topics)

Southern Inhospitality		16 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Southern Inhospitality U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham informed South Carolina yesterday that the federal government would ship plutonium to the state, over the objections of Gov. Jim Hodges (D). The announcement was the latest in the country's ongoing debate about what to do with its surplus weapons-grade plutonium. The feds want to store some of it in South Carolina on a temporary basis whi ...
Topics: Department of Energy, pollution and waste, South Carolina (all these topics)

Hodge Podge		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Hodge Podge South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D) said last week that he would do "whatever it takes" to keep plutonium shipments from coming to the Savannah River Site, a nuclear-processing complex run by the U.S. Energy Department near Aiken, S.C. Hodges says the Bush administration has gone back on a plan he worked out with the Clinto ...
Topics: nuclear power, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

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