Sam Stokes, S.C. Department of Natural Resources Region 2 wildlife coordinator, will speak during the Friends of Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge’s meeting Thursday.

The Pee Dee Land Trust will be permanently protecting, by conservation easement, 950 acres in Williamsburg County through the S.D. McGill Jr. Estate.

As the summer comes to a close, Florence County officials are seeing the area is close to exceeding federally allowed amounts of the pollutant ground-level ozone.

State Representative Alan Clemmons, (R) Myrtle Beach, has written formal letters to the the director of South Carolina Department of Health and to U. S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R) South Carolina, opposing AVX Corporation’s requested air permit.

Community leaders gathered at the Clemson Pee Dee Research Center on Wednesday to extol the need for engaging the black community in discussions regarding climate change throughout the nation.

The Citizens of Marlboro County continue to let their voices of opposition be heard and seen—through mega dump meetings along with “No Mega Dump” signs up in their yards.

Chesterfield-Ruby Middle School in Chesterfield County School District is the second school in the Pee Dee to be selected to participate in the Green Power Solar Schools initiative.

Grand Strand researchers are using underwater robots to help prevent a blow to South Carolina’s tourism industry.  Coastal Carolina professors say in 2004, they noticed a large amount of flounder being caught, and were alarmed. 

South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium officials say the launch of 2 underwater robots will be delayed because of bad weather.

For the past 30 years, the Wildlife Action chapter in Mullins has been teaching its members the true meaning of independence and self-reliance. While it provides a wide range of camps, for ages 6-14, some are designed to personify the definition of the outdoors.

A broad-based program making renewable energy from biofuel crops at the Clemson University Pee Dee Research and Education Center is among those caught in the crosshairs of a state Supreme Court ruling June 23 that struck down bobtailing.

The Florence Area Transportation Study (FLATS) Policy Committee has signed an agreement so that if the area doesn’t meet standards for the pollutant ground-level ozone, it won’t be alone in correcting the problem.

The state-owned utility Santee Cooper says it will buy an additional 1 percent of power from businesses that use renewable sources.

Kudos to all who cared enough to sound off when Marion County’s environment was threatened recently by plans to spread bio-solids, treated sewage, on farmland.

The South Carolina General Assembly has added the lower segment of the Lynches River to designation as a State Scenic River.