McMaster has supported Trump on many fronts, but environmental issues are a different story.

Small slices of national forest in South Carolina, mostly in the mountains, would be affected by a federal plan that could open the areas for logging and development

Farmer Amy Bates says she had to stop selling specialty vegetables to area restaurants after a mattress factory fire dumped ash and debris on her crops

Highway frontage on a scenic mountain road has been saved from development by the state of South Carolina.

An Ivy League scientist has expanded his look at contaminated farmland in South Carolina with more testing of soil, crops and water.

The Darlington County School District won’t let Yale University researchers test the soil at a school playground for toxins.

Megan Desrosiers, a former Coastal Conservation League staffer, is returning to South Carolina to run the organization after years at a Georgia environmental group

Gov. Henry McMaster has criticized a state agency for telling a citizen it would cost $2.4 million for him to see state pollution records

A South Carolina small business group with experience in utility rate cases says the state should not set a deadline to decide a proposed mega utility merger

A new online procedure should make accessing the Palmetto Trail at Fort Jackson easier

Other states were chosen over South Carolina as finalists for a jobs-rich federally supported nuclear lifecycle campus.

South Carolina utility regulators are considering whether a $67 billion merger between Dominion and NextEra is in the public interest.

The state’s environmental department won’t charge a citizen for public records, a week after saying the records would cost him $2.4 million

A Darlington County man was told he’d have to pay $2.4 million to see public records of pollution at an elementary school

The state’s public utilities commission weighed in Thursday on a request to halt approval of a huge natural gas plant in Colleton County.

A group of lower Richland County residents is upset about what they say is a proliferation of solar farms in the Eastover area.

Environmentalists are asking for the release of a key study that could show whether the nation needs to begin producing nuclear weapons components again

Angry property owners have challenged in SC court plans by a pipeline company to force its way onto their property to conduct surveys

State utility regulators OK’d a big natural gas plant in SC, despite a lack of information about the environmental impact, critics say

The V.C. Summer nuclear plant has run afoul of federal regulators after plant inspectors failed for years to maintain key safety equipment

Conservation groups have saved 1,400 acres from sprawl that’s inching toward McClellanville from the booming Charleston area

A system that helps send alerts about possible nuclear emergencies didn’t work at atomic energy plants in five states, including South Carolina

The Santee Cooper power company is moving ahead with efforts to restart the failed V.C. Summer nuclear project

A new state forest is being developed for the public in South Carolina

The state of South Carolina will more closely examine the costs of new regulations that protect public health, the environment and safety.

Legal action against a Columbia, SC area manufacturing plant could stop so-called nurdle pollution in the Congaree River, environmentalist say

A state agency and Richland County have approved spending more than $13 million to save historic plantation land near the Wateree River from development

A deal is in the works to acquire part of the old Goodwill Plantation for expansion of a state nature preserve along the Wateree River in Richland County

The general counsel of the S.C. Forestry Commission has been chosen to run the S.C. Conservation Bank, an agency that protects land across South Carolina

A giant data center won’t be built in Marion County, as proposed, after a public outcry and questions about the availability of power

Researchers have found hazardous chemicals in food crops decades after contaminated sludge was spread on farm fields

Scientists are still trying to determine what caused a sonic boom that shook Columbia last week

Deer-hunting dogs — and their owners — are making life miserable for rural landowners, South Carolina neighbors say

A company trying to extend a natural gas pipe through Georgia and South Carolina has taken resistant landowners to court

Santee Cooper held a tour of the failed V.C. Summer construction site Tuesday as part of a stakeholders meeting.

Tiny, potentially hazardous pellets are being found near South Carolina’s Congaree National Park

Chemicals are draining from the old Myrtle Beach Air Force base onto the Grand Strand seashore

Richland County says its taxpayers won’t pay any of a $1 million fine over environmental violations at the Scout Motors project site

The V.C. Summer nuclear plant is under scrutiny by federal nuclear inspectors over a failure to perform maintenance on key equipment

Richland County has paid its $1 million fine for stormwater and sediment violations at the Scout Motor vehicles site at Blythewood

South Carolina property owners face legal action if they don’t let a pipeline company onto their land for a massive natural gas project

Activists opposed to a nuclear weapons factory at the Savannah River Site had plenty to say after touring the project site near Aiken

Sumter is being accused of polluting the Pocotaligo River with forever chemicals, sparking the threat of a lawsuit by environmentalists

State and federal agencies are changing rules to make nuclear, natural gas and other energy projects get built faster

The Lumber River in North Carolina is threatened by forever chemicals that are flowing toward South Carolina

South Carolina environmental regulators learned about toxic pollution in the soil of an old farm in 2019, but didn’t stop the flow of noxious sludge for years

A school district has issued a statement following reports that one of its schools. may have been the site of a waste disposal operation in SC.

Plans to bring more industrial sludge to South Carolina have Pee Dee residents curious, upset and full of questions.

State and federal authorities are trying to learn more about reports that an elementary school was built atop a sludge field coated with contaminated waste.

A farmer whose land was polluted by sewer sludge drew the wrath of a state agency recently after he tried to get the word out about a public meeting on sludge spreading.