Water

Groups sue DES over illegal rules for major water withdrawals

Groups sue DES over illegal rules for major water withdrawals

Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in South Carolina state court against the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services challenging the agency’s “safe yield” rules for large water withdrawals. The DES rules allow major agricultural corporations to remove all the water from rivers and streams across South Carolina. Other state and federal agencies have criticized this loophole.

FRETWELL: Megafarms could suck rivers dry because state agency isn’t following law, groups charge

FRETWELL: Megafarms could suck rivers dry because state agency isn’t following law, groups charge

Three environmental groups are threatening to sue the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control over what they say is a failure to protect the state’s rivers from industrial scale crop farms.

Published 12/4/23 in The State Newspaper.