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, is leaking dangerous pollutants into the Reedy River and surrounding wetlands. Immediate cleanup is needed.