In 2023, Seabrook Island Property Owners Association received approval for a permit for a sand scraping project, to mine sand from the intertidal beach between central Seabrook Island and Captain Sams Inlet and transfer the sand further south near Seabrook Island Beach Club. Coastal Conservation League is challenging the permit.

On behalf of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, we are seeking to intervene in a developer's appeal of the Beaufort County Planning Commission's decision to deny its request to construct three golf courses in conjunction with a gated community resort on St. Helena Island. SCELP is committed to advocating on behalf of the Gullah/Geechee people and culture.

On behalf of multiple homeowner associations, we are challenging the South Carolina Administrative Law Court’s decision to reinstate a septic system permit for a proposed RV park in northern Spartanburg County. Per DHEC standard calculations, more than two million gallons per year of septic effluent - including human waste – would be discharged into the ground on the site, which is adjacent to a creek and thousands of acres of conservation land.

South Carolina’s coastal areas are experiencing increased development pressures, particularly in rural areas, where dense clusters of conventional septic tank systems are often chosen by developers because of lack of access to sewer and low cost. Currently, DHEC does not review septic tank permits for consistency with the Coastal Management Program when they are placed in the coastal zone – despite applying these policies to almost every other type of state environmental permit.

At SCELP, we are working to prevent the degradation of the state’s water resources by halting uses that pollute them and by improving statewide water standards and regulations.

We are representing our clients in challenging a DHEC permit authorizing dredging and excavating critical area salt marsh in order to convert a unique and highly valuable freshwater pond and wetland system into a saltwater mitigation bank.

The Department of Health and Environmental Control allowed four beachfront property owners leave an illegal sandbag seawall on the public beach as a so-called experiment. We are seeking both state and federal relief on behalf of the Coastal Conservation League.

On behalf of the Congaree Riverkeeper and the Gills Creek Watershed Association, we are seeking to reverse the City of Columbia’s Board of Zoning Appeals’ approval of a new automobile scrap yard sited just 400 feet from Gills Creek.

The U.S. government plans to more than quadruple the production of plutonium pits at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Savannah River Site. To date, the Department of Energy has refused to fully examine the environmental and safety impacts of this cross-country plan.

Since 2016, developers have attempted to build a luxury resort on Bay Point Island, a biologically rich barrier island at the mouth of Port Royal Sound. The plan includes 50 villas, shops, restaurants, bars, spas and fitness centers, along with 10 septic systems.

Our challenge to a new structure in Hilton Head attempts to skirt our state's long-standing prohibition on seawalls.

South Carolina regulators are failing to enforce their own rules by not acting on outdated water pollution permits for three coal-fired power plants, jeopardizing the environment and public health.

We are challenging a permit granted by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to construct three groins on Debidue Beach in Georgetown County. Armoring the shoreline with groins will negatively impact the members of the public who use and enjoy the beach.