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Wednesday, June 05, 2013  A lawsuit accuses the South Carolina town of Timmonsville of putting residents' health at risk by improperly discharging raw sewage and wastewater.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013  An environmental group has sued Santee Cooper, saying the state-owned utility has known for more than a decade that arsenic was seeping from its coal-fired power plant In Conway.

Monday, April 08, 2013 

Friday, March 29, 2013  The Obama administration is unveiling a plan to clean up gasoline and automobile emissions.

Friday, February 22, 2013  An environmental group has filed a complaint with a federal agency about pollution at a Santee Cooper plant in Conway.

Thursday, December 20, 2012  Councilman Moe Baddourah is hosting a public meeting on efforts to clean up lead contamination at 3 p.m. at the Edisto Discovery Park and Neighborhood Center.

Thursday, December 06, 2012  Four colleges and universities in the Midlands have signed an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to make their campuses greener and to work together on environmental issues.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012  The federal Environmental Protection Agency has cited some landowners along the Grand Strand with illegally destroying more than 100 acres of wetlands. The State newspaper reported five landowners improperly filled in or dug up wetlands west of the Myrtle Beach area.

Monday, September 03, 2012  Federal environmental officials will clean up toxic metals found in soil of a Columbia neighborhood.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012  State environmental officials are holding a public meeting to talk about toxic metals that have been detected in a dozen yards in a Columbia neighborhood. The Department of Health and Environmental Control is meeting with the public on Tuesday at A.C. Moore Elementary in Columbia.

Monday, August 13, 2012  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contractors have finished their soil sampling work in a Columbia neighborhood that was once home to a fertilizer plant.

Monday, July 30, 2012  Last week, South Carolina health and environmental officials announced that elevated levels of arsenic and lead were found at a Columbia asphalt plant site.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012  South Carolina health and environmental officials have found elevated levels of arsenic and lead at a Columbia asphalt plant site.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012  The July 25, 2010, pipeline rupture spread oil across roughly 35 miles of the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Mich., fouling wildlife habitat and closing a large swath of the river to boaters and anglers.

Monday, May 07, 2012  A train carrying chemicals struck a truck in Calhoun County Monday afternoon.