SCELP is challenging Edgefield County’s approval of a 70-site RV park proposed for environmentally sensitive forestland containing Horse Creek springheads. The Planning Commission had unanimously denied the unchanged application in July 2025 but reconsidered and approved it three months later without legal authority or explanation. Representing Horse Creek Nature Preserve and Savannah Riverkeeper, SCELP argues the approval violated county ordinances and threatens groundwater, downstream waterways and nearby communities if allowed to proceed.

A group of concerned residents and property owners in Mountville, a small community in Laurens County, are challenging the state environmental agency’s authorization of sixteen new industrial poultry barns in the area. Concentrated animal feeding operations are known to create and worsen air and water pollution, which is already plaguing the Little River due to existing poultry barns in the community.

We are working with the Merriwether Community Coalition in Edgefield County to protect its members’ interests in the face of a proposed development with the potential to negatively impact the community’s rural quality of life, existing County infrastructure and services, and the health of the environment.

The Bramlett site, a former Manufactured Gas Plant located in Greenville's Southernside community, has been leaking dangerous pollutants into the Reedy River, surrounding wetlands, and the Newtown neighborhood for decades. After years of advocacy, a cleanup decision has been reached, but the work is far from over.