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First things first – thank you all for a wildly successful Conservation Coalition Lobby Day and Oyster Roast! I had a ton of fun and you showed the General Assembly how important conservation is to voters. I’m already looking forward…
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– – ‘Twas Budget Week: A Lobbyist’s Poem ‘Twas the first day of Budget Week and all through my brain, …
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We’re now one month into session, and legislators and lobbyists are hard at work. As you probably guessed, that’s both a good thing… And a not-so-good thing. You, however, have been excellent! We’ve asked you to sign petitions, and you have.
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Reauthorizing the Conservation Bank: We finally made progress this Year with both the Senate and the House holding subcommittee hearings on bills to reauthorize the Conservation Bank. The Conservation Bank was created 14 Years ago to safeguard our drinking…
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Wow. What a Year it’s been! The short story is that in 2016 conservation WON at the State House. We PASSED hard fought legislation to protect South Carolina from coal ash and irresponsible shoreline development. We BLOCKED bad bills that…
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When I speak with South Carolinians about what happens at the State House, citizens are shocked that each Year we must fight the rollback of important environmental protections that protect public health and give us the opportunity to hold polluters…
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Welcome back to the State House! The 2016 legislative Year marks the second Year in a two Year session. That means a lot of the issues we worked on last Year will still be on the table. 2015 was a more tumultuous…
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The 2015 legislative Year can be described as full of talk and little action. We joined our partners in the Conservation Coalition in successfully securing increased funding for the Conservation Bank and fought rollbacks that would have weakened coastal protections,…