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    Category 4 Hurricane Florence Forecast to Hit East Coast

    Category 4 Hurricane Florence Forecast to Hit East Coast

    After starting off as a tropical storm, Florence has rapidly intensified and is expected to become a major hurricane that could make landfall in North and South Carolina later this week. The storm is now a Category 4 hurricane, the National Hurricane Center’s Atlantic branch tweeted in its latest update Monday. “Florence has continued to […]

    Uranium Leaked Through Floor of South Carolina Nuclear Plant

    Uranium Leaked Through Floor of South Carolina Nuclear Plant

    A nuclear plant in Richmond County, South Carolina with a history of contaminating groundwater has leaked radioactive uranium into the soil below the plant, The State reported Tuesday. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) officials said there was no reason to believe this leak left the the site of the Westinghouse plant […]

    South Carolina Utility Scraps $14 Billion Nuclear Project

    South Carolina Utility Scraps $14 Billion Nuclear Project

    By Tom Clements South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G) announced Monday that it will cease construction of the two new nuclear units at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station. The decision to abandon the V.C. Summer project is of monumental proportion and is a full admission that pursuit of the project was a fool’s mission […]

    Millions of Honeybees Killed in Attempt to Prevent Zika

    Millions of Honeybees Killed in Attempt to Prevent Zika

    Aerial spraying of the pesticide naled in a South Carolina county, done in an attempt to prevent Zika-infected mosquitoes from gaining a foothold in the state, resulted instead in the massacre of millions of honeybees. On one farm in Summerville, South Carolina, 46 hives were wiped out instantly, killing 2.5 million bees.Flowertown Bee Farm and […]