Fall 2007 ■ Volume 18 No.3 ConservationCoastal League

Special Report: The Environmental Connection to Public Health Protection Brian Barrie & Dana Beach & Dana Barrie Brian Is Our Air Safe to Breathe?

Charleston What You earns an "F" 6 Coal 10 Can Do in air quality Diesel Mountain Communities Danger Speak Out F4 Zone 8 12 From the Director

A Failure of Oversight

ver the past two decades, the Web site and certainly true that most lower- Fall 2007 Vol.18 No.3 S.C. Department of Health income families in these rural areas lack Staff and Environmental Control internet access. So the purpose of a health ______(DHEC) has periodically been agency should be to inform citizens of real Director Dana Beach accused of failing to protect public health risks like mercury. But more ______Regional Offices______public health. Witness the latest importantly, it would be to proclaim that it South Coast Patrick Moore Reed Armstrong Ocontroversy about the Barnwell low level is not acceptable for South Carolina to have Andrea Malloy nuclear waste dump. one of the worst mercury contamination North Coast Nancy Cave Amy Weinmeister This newsletter reveals problems in America, and to work to change Columbia Christie McGregor that concerns about DHEC’s that unwanted distinction. Patty Pierce performance in the public Instead, in October, DHEC issued a draft Heather Spires health arena are well justified, air permit to Santee Cooper for a mammoth ______P______rograms______Director of Elizabeth Hagood from a lack of basic data coal burning power plant on the Great Pee Conservation Programs on pollution to inadequate Program Directors Megan Desrosiers enforcement of regulations. Jane Lareau DHEC must be reformed by removing Nancy Vinson Although DHEC is Ben Moore occasionally accused of the ambiguity surrounding its mission. Project Managers Hamilton Davis Lisa Jones-Turansky colluding with industry, I This is far more than a simple change Jim Cumberland believe the problem is simpler Art von Lehe of statutory language. It will take Project Associate Alex Webel and less subversive. DHEC is Communications/Web Site Brian Barrie confused. It is confused about its mission and leadership at the agency and support Grassroots Coordinator Gretta Kruesi Newsletter Editor Virginia Beach whom it is serving. It is confused about why from the Legislature and the public. it exists. ______Develo______pment______Some of this is understandable. DHEC’s Director Tish Lynn Membership Nancy Cregg statutory mission is “to maintain reasonable Dee River. Coal plants are the primary Development Associate Alison Whetstone

standards of purity of the air and water source of mercury in our waters and this ______Administration______resources of the State, consistent with the one will worsen the mercury problem in HR and Admin. Tonnia Switzer public health, safety and welfare of its citizens, the state. The mercury debacle is only one Director of Finance Ashley Waters Data Manager Nora Kravec maximum employment, the industrial obvious breach of responsibility that emerges Technology Administrator Robert Malone development of the State, the propagation and from institutional confusion. Administrative Assistant Angela Chvarak protection of terrestrial and marine flora and Another example is the problem of air Board of Directors fauna, and the protection of physical property pollution from the Port of Charleston. As Will Cleveland, Chair and other resources.” The ambiguity and this newsletter reveals, neighborhoods near Bill Agnew Fred Lincoln apparent conflict here are unnecessary. the Wando terminal in Mt. Pleasant have Robert E. Coffee, Jr. Cartter Lupton Dorothea Benton Frank Robert Prioleau Businesses operate to make a profit not had their air quality tested for the past Laura Gates Sarah Rauch Vince Graham Roy Richards and, collectively, advance the economy and half of a decade. The same is true for the Richard T. Hale Gillian Roy maximize employment. DHEC was created neighborhoods on the Charleston “Neck,” Angela Halfacre Jeffrey Schutz Hank Holliday Libby Smith to correct the deficiencies of unbridled whose air quality is affected by the three Holly Hook Victoria C. Verity George Johnston Trenholm Walker commerce, to minimize and “internalize” terminals on the Charleston peninsula. So Mary Kennemur external costs like air and water pollution, to in spite of abundant evidence of the harmful protect public interests that can get lost in effects of diesel pollution, the agency charged Advisors and Committee Members Carol Ervin the shuffle of capitalism. with protecting public health cannot even Paul Kimball An agency that focused like a laser beam tell the families in these high risk areas what Hugh Lane Jay Mills on this purpose would avoid the pitfalls of their exposure is. trying to be simultaneously a public health DHEC must be reformed by removing P.O. Box 1765 ■ charleston, SC 29402 advocate and a chamber of commerce. the ambiguity surrounding its mission. This Phone: (843) 723-8035 ■ faX: (843) 723-8308 E-Mail: [email protected] Consider that every watershed in the state is far more than a simple change of statutory Web site: www.CoastalConservationLeague.org is contaminated with levels of mercury that language. It will take leadership at the make fish unsafe to eat. This information agency and support from the Legislature and P.O. Box 1861 ■ Beaufort, SC 29901 is available on DHEC’s Web site. It is not, the public. We hope this newsletter’s focus Phone: (843) 522-1800 however, posted at all affected boat landings on the problem, along with our members’ 935 Main Street, No. 1 ■ columbia, SC 29201 where a warning actually might be read. It continued advocacy on the port and the Phone: (803) 771-7102

is doubtful that any fisherman or woman power plant, will help propel this important P.O. Box 603 ■ Georgetown, SC 29442 on the Pee Dee has ever gone to DHEC’s cause forward. Phone: (843) 545-0403 -Dana Beach All contents herein are copyright of the Coastal Conservation League. Reprinting c o a s t a l c o n s e r v a t i o n l e a g u e is strictly prohibited without written consent. Design by Julie Frye Design.

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The Environmental Connection to Vinson Nancy Public Health Protection

W hite sandy beaches, meandering creeks and marshes, live oak and pine forests, enduring communities, blue skies and lots of sunshine are some of the things we love about living along the South Carolina coast. These elements have come to characterize the “good life” that can be found here in the Lowcountry.

For generations, newcomers have Disease Control, “whether that flocked to this part of the world to environment is a community or a escape the hustle-bustle, the noise workplace, we improve the health of and grime of the more industrialized the people who live or work in that Northeast and Midwest. Likewise, environment. Many times, we can many longtime residents have seen greatly improve people’s health and no reason to leave, preferring the well-being by making changes in the “clean living” of our less urban, immediate environment.” more rural environment. As our state’s population The clean living that we all seek continues to increase and as the has been, and will continue to be, demands for infrastructure continue dependent on the health of our to tax the natural resources upon surrounding environment – the which our health depends, it is cleanliness of the air we breathe, the imperative to ask the following purity of the water we drink and fish questions: In this special report, The and swim in, and whether or not Environmental Connection to Public we build our communities to foster • How healthy are we in South Health Protection, we examine healthy habits and lifestyles. This Carolina? such topics as the rising rates of relationship between public health • How clean is the environment asthma, lung cancer, obesity and and the health of the environment is upon which we depend? other chronic diseases in South well documented and has enormous • What is the connection Carolina, the issue of uncontrolled consequences for the welfare of our between the health and port pollution, the dangers of coal citizens, our communities and our well-being of the citizens of fired power plants, the links between economy. South Carolina and our urban sprawl and obesity, and most “When we improve the health surrounding environment? importantly, what we can do to of an environment,” says Dr. Julie • How best can we maintain the ensure a healthy South Carolina Gerberding of the Center for health of both? now and in the future.

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Human Health and the Environment in South Carolina

How Healthy are We? Consider the following facts about air pollution in South Across the United States, chronic diseases such as cancer, Carolina: heart disease, diabetes and asthma, account for more than 75 • The Port of Charleston is the largest unregulated cents of every health care dollar spent in the United States. source of air pollution in the state. In South Carolina, more than 1.5 million people (nearly one- • According to the Clean Air Task Force, as of 1999, third of the population) suffer from such diseases, adding up Charleston ranked among the worst 10% of U.S. cities to a combined cost of almost $11 billion. for diesel soot pollution. • In 2007, Charleston County received an “F” from the Here are a few statistics on the Palmetto State: American Lung Association for the amount of hazardous • We have the nation’s fifth highest adult obesity rate particle pollution in its air. and sixth highest child obesity rate. • Heart disease is the leading cause of death overall. • Lung cancer is the number one cancer killer of women. For every $1 spent on cleaning up port pollution, • Cancer rates along the South Carolina coast are significantly higher than in the rest of the state and we save $30 in health care costs. the nation. • Asthma and bronchitis are the leading causes of hospitalizations for children under 18. What do these statistics have in common? Diesel exhaust How Clean Is Our Air? – whether emanating from traffic congestion on our roads, While heredity, lifestyle and personal habits determine a or from the vehicles, trucks, ships and equipment associated lot about a person’s health, more and more research reveals with our ports. Compounds in diesel emissions have been that human health is also determined by one’s surrounding linked in thousands of medical studies to cancer, heart environment. disease, asthma, and other respiratory diseases. Among the toxic compounds found in diesel exhaust is particulate matter, which is found in emissions from coal fired power plants. According to the American

Julie Frye Julie Lung Association, these tiny particles are harmful to the maintenance of lung health. Less than 2.5 microns in diameter, the particles are so small (a human hair is about 70 microns in diameter) that they are inhaled deeply into the lungs where they are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream, as easily as oxygen molecules, and carried to the vital organs. The health risk from diesel exposure is greatest for children and the elderly; for people who have respiratory problems or who smoke; for people who regularly strenuously exercise in diesel-polluted areas, and for people who work or live near diesel exhaust sources. Studies have also shown that the closer a child lives to major roads, the higher the rate of hospital admissions for asthma and the higher the rate of occurrence for leukemia and cancer. In fact, there is a positive relationship between school proximity to highways and asthma rates. Families want assurance that Charleston’s air is safe to breathe.

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All Cancer Sites Incidence Rates by County South Carolina, 1996-2001 In its annual State of the Air report for 2007, the American Lung Association gave Charleston County a failing grade of “F” for the amount of particle pollution in its air. The level of particulate matter in the air around Charleston currently exceeds the levels attributable to most chronic health conditions. If the proposed expansion of the Port of Charleston is built, toxic particle pollution in the region will increase even more.

How Clean Is Our Water? Four more facts about the Palmetto State: • One-third of South Carolina’s rivers are unfit for recreational use. • Every major river basin in the South Carolina Lowcountry is tainted by the neurotoxin mercury. • On the Edisto River, for example, DHEC Diesel Health Risk has placed limitations on consumption of all but one species of fish, due to high levels of mercury contamination. • Ten percent of women of childbearing age in South Carolina have enough mercury in their bloodstream to put their children at risk for adverse health effects. Clean Air Task Force Task Clean Air What do these statistics have in common? Coal fired power plant emissions – the number one source of mercury fallout in South Carolina. Cancer rates Mercury is contaminating our soils and waters to and health risks such a degree that the Palmetto State has some of from diesel pollution the highest levels of mercury in the country. A are high along the coast potent neurotoxin, mercury can cause mental of South Carolina. retardation and impaired vision in children, and kidney damage in adults. Mercury is released when coal is burned. Once in the air, it falls to the ground Angeles and Long Beach reveals that the port complex is the largest, with rain, causing contamination of the soil and single air polluter in the State of California. At the same time, water. Fish readily absorb mercury and become neighbors of the port are 10 times more likely to have cancer than unsafe to consume. residents living 20 miles away. • Millsboro is the home of Delaware’s largest polluter – the Indian A Compelling Connection River coal fired power plant. Millsboro is also home to a cancer cluster. The above are just a few facts and figures on The rate of cancer cases there is 17% higher than the national average, the health of our citizens and the environment. with the highest incidence being that of lung cancer. Much more data is needed in South Carolina, not • A recent study published in the American Journal of Health only to monitor the rate of chronic disease among Promotion found that people living in sprawling, auto-dependent residents, but also to monitor some of the state’s developments tend toward higher obesity levels and are more likely to largest polluters – such as the State Ports Authority suffer from high blood pressure. and our 13 coal fired power plants. Other areas of As South Carolina continues to grow – with a new coal fired power the country have conducted extensive research that plant and a port expansion currently under consideration, coupled with links poor condition of the environment with poor growing transportation, energy and infrastructure needs – it behooves human health. The results are compelling: us to carefully consider the environmental connection to public health • Air quality monitoring at the Port of Los protection.

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DANGEROUS To Your Health

Frank Heindel

Port Operations in Charleston Wando Air Not Monitored –The Wando terminal handles more ships per year than the other three Port of Charleston terminals combined, yet neither DHEC nor SPA is currently monitoring the Mobile Smokestacks – air near this major pollution source. Unregulated and Toxic “Mobile smokestacks” is the term given to the approximately 1,956 vessels that call on the Port of The Worst is Unseen Charleston’s four terminals each year. If a proposed As these ships pass by the Towns of Sullivan’s Island, Folly new terminal is built at the old navy base, Charleston’s Beach, Mount Pleasant, Charleston and North Charleston total container volume will equal about one-third of the (with engines running for long hours even while berthed), container volume handled by the largest port operation they spew out dangerous diesel fumes laden with toxic in the nation – the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach. particulate matter so fine it cannot be seen and so fine it Such an expansion could also cause the Charleston passes straight through the lungs’ natural filters into the region to exceed federal clean air standards for fine bloodstream (see article on pages 4 & 5). The primary particulate pollution. sources of this particle pollution are coal fired power plants Despite each ship releasing somewhere between and diesel engines – especially those that power the ships and 500 and 1,000 pounds of hazardous pollutants into trucks that move cargo in and out of port facilities. the air during an average 14-hour stay in Charleston On September 5th, the national environmental group, Harbor, these emissions remain unregulated by the S.C. Friends of the Earth, sued the federal government and EPA for Department of Health and Environmental Control failing to meet its deadline for setting emissions standards for (DHEC) and its parent agency, the Environmental ship engines that spew exhaust into communities surrounding Protection Agency (EPA). Why? Because ships move major ports. The suit contends that EPA is required to regulate around and don’t stay still. Making matters worse is the ship pollution under the federal Clean Air Act. In response fact that most of the ships burn what is called “bunker to a previous lawsuit by environmentalists, the agency had fuel,” a fuel so dirty and unrefined that it resembles committed in 2003 to set emissions standards by April of this black tar. year, but no new regulations have been issued.

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Expansion – at What Cost? Despite the irrefutable medical data confirming the dangers of diesel port pollution, South Carolina’s State Ports Authority (SPA) is moving ahead with a proposal to construct a new 3-berth container

terminal on the old Charleston Navy Base, coupled with an access Whetstone Alison road and off-ramp through the Charleston Neck community of Rosemont to link the facility to Interstate 26. The proposed new terminal is expected to double the cargo volume coming through Charleston and will likely cause this region to exceed federal clean air standards for fine particulate pollution. The proposal also violates state water quality standards for dissolved oxygen in the Cooper River and will cause catastrophic congestion along I-26 when the new facility opens in 2012. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) and DHEC have issued permits approving the port expansion and access road.

Beyond the Terminal Gates “This is the worst Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) I’ve ever seen,” states Conservation League Program Director Nancy Vinson. “To begin with, the SPA study significantly reduces the pollution and traffic impacts by underestimating the volume of containers the new port will handle. The study also underestimates air pollution across the board by simply ignoring massive amounts of air pollutants generated by trucks, ships and trains.” Coal on the Edisto While SPA has announced “a completely voluntary program with S.C.E.& G. operates a DHEC to minimize air impacts from new and existing terminals,” coal fired power plant near it fails to address the most significant pollutants: ship emissions and Givhans, on the banks of truck emissions. The new port is projected to generate more than the Edisto River – the longest 10,800 vehicle trips per day (70% diesel trucks). “Once they drive undammed blackwater river in off site, diesel container truck emissions are not included in SPA’s the world and source of much of Charleston’s drinking water. air quality models,” says Vinson. “Neither is most of the pollution emanating from ships while in the shipping channel.” It is hazardous to health to pretend that diesel emissions and their airborne particulates somehow stop at the terminal gates. The Conservation League, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, is challenging the port expansion permits before the Administrative Law Court.

Dangers of Particle Pollution

According to Dr. Richard Hernandez, President of the Coastal Board of the American Lung Association Southeast

Region: “Short-term exposure to particle pollution [as Beach Virginia generated by the burning of diesel fuel and coal] has been linked to death from respiratory and cardiovascular causes, increased emergency room visits, hospitalizations for asthma, and inflammation of lung tissue in young, healthy adults. Year-round exposure has been linked to slowed lung function growth in children and teenagers, significant damage to the small airways of the lungs, increased risk of dying from lung cancer and increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease.” Diesel is Dangerous to the Lungs Diesel exhaust from ships and trucks contains toxic particulate matter so fine it passes straight through the lungs’ natural filters directly into the bloodstream. Hazard Zones

Coal Fired Power Plants Mountain of Coal Along the Cooper River

Carbon Dioxide & Particle Coal transport giant Kinder Morgan offloads 2.5 million tons of coal Pollution every year at its Milford Street terminal south of the Port of Charleston’s Power companies have been building coal fired proposed expansion site and not far from the community of Rosemont. plants for the last 100 years. The century-old Recently DHEC hosted a public hearing on an air permit application technology takes crushed coal (a non-renewable submitted by Kinder Morgan to quadruple the size of its facility, fossil fuel) and ignites it to heat water, which allowing it to bring in 10 million tons of foreign coal every year, bound produces steam that turns a turbine that produces for dirty coal burning plants in South Carolina and beyond. electricity. While such technology has produced If built, it will be one of the largest terminals of its kind on the East relatively cheap electricity all these years, its most Coast and result in a mountain of coal on the banks of the Cooper toxic byproducts – oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, River rising 80 feet high and weighing 600,000 tons. The coal is loaded particulate matter, and mercury – have been onto uncovered trains that run straight through North Charleston steadily warming the earth, polluting our air, and streets, spreading fine coal dust. Neighbors worry about impacts to air poisoning our rivers and lakes. quality and water quality in the Cooper River, especially in light of past The carbon dioxide (CO2) released from the violations for which DHEC fined Kinder Morgan $32,400 in 2002. burning of coal is proven to be one of the chief causes of global warming in the U.S. and the world. According to the Southern Alliance for New Coal Plant Proposed for the Clean Energy, South Carolina’s power plants alone Great Pee Dee emit nearly 40 million tons of carbon dioxide In the Kingsburg Community of Florence County near the Marion annually, ranking our state 23rd in the nation for County border, Santee Cooper – South Carolina's state-owned electric carbon dioxide pollution. utility – proposes to construct a $1 billion coal fired electric generation In addition, the burning of coal is one of the plant along the limestone bluffs of the Great Pee Dee River. The 1,320- primary sources of fine particulate matter released into the atmosphere, as is the burning of diesel fuel (see article on pages 4 & 5). As discussed earlier, studies show that the absorption of particulate matter into the lungs has been linked to cancer, heart disease, asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

Mercury Fallout Moreover, smokestacks of coal fired power plants are Chris Dixon prawl the number one source of mercury in South Carolina’s soils and waters. Large amounts of mercury (a heavy S metal) become airborne when coal is burned as fuel. Once in the air, mercury falls to the ground with rain and snow, causing contamination of the soil and water. Fish readily absorb mercury and become unsafe to consume. The Palmetto State now has some of the highest levels of mercury in the U.S., with mercury-tainted fish showing up in every one of our major river basins. This potent neurotoxin can cause mental retardation and impaired vision in children, and kidney damage in adults. As a result, fish consumption limits are in effect for the state’s entire coast, all major rivers below the fall line, and our major lakes, including Marion, Moultrie, Russell Sprawl is Bad for Your Health and Jocassee. People who live in sprawling, auto-dependent communities walk less, are more overweight, and suffer higher rates of blood pressure.

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Coal is Dirty Burning coal for power is the #1 source of mercury that has contaminated all of South Carolina’s major river basins and lakes.

megawatt plant will have a total footprint day from the Great Pee Dee. The Conservation League, in of 1,245 acres and will require altering Presently, Santee Cooper owns four partnership with more than 20 other approximately 94 acres of wetlands and of the seven existing coal plants in the organizations and individuals, opposes converting hundreds of acres of land into Pee Dee and Lowcountry regions. This the construction of a new coal fired landfills and ash ponds. new plant alone would increase by 30% power plant and intends to use every Moreover, the plant will emit 8.7 the utility’s carbon emissions. While the means available to prevent unnecessary million tons of CO2, 372 pounds of public utility has agreed to conduct a full degradation of the natural and human mercury, and thousands of tons of Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) as environment when alternative, cleaner smog and soot forming pollutants into required by law, Santee Cooper received a solution and technologies exist. the atmosphere every year. It will also draft state air pollution permit before the withdraw 2 million gallons of water per much-needed EIS had even begun. The Obesity

Question established a definitive link between Furthermore, the percentage of Health experts agree that most sprawling, auto-dependent development young people who are overweight has Americans are too sedentary and weigh and rising high blood pressure rates and more than doubled in the past 30 years. too much. And South Carolina is no weight gain among Americans. A recent report from the University of prawl exception, with the nation’s fifth highest South Carolina found that 35.8 percent adult obesity rate. In fact, obesity The Definitive Link of the state's children are overweight or S has reached epidemic levels here, and The peer-reviewed study (published obese, which ranks South Carolina at diseases associated with inactivity are in the American Journal of Health sixth in the nation for childhood obesity. on the rise. What is creating this public Promotion) used a county sprawl index Car trips have replaced trips that used health crisis? While much of the focus developed in partnership with Smart to be made on foot or bicycle by children, in the past was on whether we eat too Growth America and determined that whether to school or friends’ houses. much fattening food, researchers have people living in automobile-dependent A Coastal Conservation League study also begun to pay attention to the other neighborhoods that suppress walking found that schools built before 1983 half of the weight-gain equation: Our do indeed walk less, weigh more, and had four times as many students walking low levels of physical activity. are more likely to suffer from high to them as schools built since 1983. One question has been whether blood pressure. Helping people get back to walking the design of our communities makes “This research shows that the lack of or bicycling should be a first target it more difficult for us to get physical convenient, walkable communities may to combating the obesity epidemic, according to the AMA. activity and maintain a healthy weight. help explain why so many Americans In 2003, a landmark study entitled are battling high blood pressure and Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and obesity,” says Don Chen, Executive Physical Activity, Obesity and Morbidity Director of Smart Growth America.

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Rosemont Beach Virginia An Interview with Nancy Button

he questions facing The New Rosemont Homeowners Association President Nancy Button are not unlike those that have faced previous Rosemont residentsT for generations. Living on the Charleston Neck along the narrow land bridge between North Charleston and Charleston, Button and others have forged longtime family and neighborhood ties, Life in an Industrial Zone – The Rosemont Community on the Charleston despite forces that might have torn apart a Neck has co-existed with numerous polluting industries, a congested interstate, and less resilient community. nearby shipping and trucking facilities for decades. Bordered by the Ashley River to the west and I-26 to the east, Rosemont is one to transport goods and people between the mines and Charleston and of several African American communities Summerville. Enticed by easy access to markets and a ready labor force, other that grew out of the discovery of large industries quickly followed suit, under past and present names such as the phosphate deposits along the Charleston Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, the Pacific Guano Company, Atlantic Neck and the eventual emancipation Phosphate Works, Koppers, Inc., Macalloy, Kinder Morgan and Rhodia, to of thousands of slaves at the end of the name a few. Civil War. Old plantation lands were While providing much needed livelihood to communities such as rejuvenated and by 1888, the Neck and Rosemont, the industries brought with them their associated soil, water, air North Area possessed 21 phosphate and and noise pollution. Nevertheless, by the 1960s when Nancy Button was fertilizer plants that provided one-fifth of growing up, Rosemont was a bustling neighborhood of all ages, with several the total U.S. market. A majority of the active churches, beauty shops, stores, restaurants, even its own elementary laborers were freedmen or former slaves. school, all in the shadow of an industrial zone. Communities such as Silver Hill, Magnolia and Rosemont quickly developed to provide housing for the “Too many people here die from cancer, too many suffer from hundreds of workers in these phosphate asthma and sinus problems. We’ve been surrounded by pollution mines. Eventually, a railroad was built, all our lives and yet no one really knows what’s going on.” in addition to regular ferry service, Then along came I-26, tearing through the heart of the community and introducing a whole new barrage of auto and diesel exhaust, incessant noise, and a permanent barrier that forever isolated Rosemont from its neighbors on The Neck. “Our quality of life and health is not good and the young people

Virginia Beach Virginia are leaving,” laments Button. “Too many people here die from cancer, too many suffer from asthma and sinus problems. We’ve been surrounded by pollution all our lives and yet no one really knows what’s going on.” Now SPA is proposing to construct a new port terminal across from Rosemont on the other side of I-26, as well as to widen the interstate and build a new access road to I-26, with a ramp that will go right through the community’s playing field and park. The new port will generate 7,000 new truck trips a day, an average of one truck every 6 seconds using the ramp Nancy Button, President of the The New through Rosemont. Says Button, “How much more can we take? If this Rosemont Homeowners Association, enjoys a rare new port and road come through here, it will be the nail in the coffin for our moment of relaxation by the community’s playing community.” field, where a ramp for the proposed port access road would be built. c o a s t a l c o n s e r v a t i o n l e a g u e Community Concerns

Old Hobcaw An Interview with Frank Heindel Dana Beach Dana

hen Hobcaw resident Frank Heindel tucks his five-year-old asthmatic son into bed each night, he hopes that the particulate matter emanating from the nearby Wando port terminal will not reach levels that are Wharmful to the little boy’s developing lungs. Heindel, who works for a grain merchandizing business, has borrowed a friend’s air particulate meter to try to gauge how much of the fine particles are getting into his home and neighborhood. Since neither DHEC nor SPA is currently monitoring particulate pollution at the Wando terminal, Heindel and his neighbors can’t be sure that the air they are breathing is safe. What Heindel does know is that particle pollution, found in diesel exhaust from ships and trucks, is a pollutant so fine that it evades the lungs’ filtering mechanisms, flows straight into the bloodstream, and can put someone at considerable risk for a host of chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, asthma and other respiratory ailments. It is especially threatening to children. According to a 1979 settlement agreement between the SPA and local community groups, when the Wando terminal was built in Mount Pleasant, SPA agreed to Frank Heindel, a resident of Old Hobcaw in Mount Pleasant, uses a hand held air quality meter to measure fine particulate matter. monitor air quality at the terminal with sufficient frequency to protect the environment. For a while, SPA tested sporadically for particulate matter. Then all testing ceased monitoring stations for Charleston County, neither of which is in 2001. DHEC established a program to measure air located where the people and pollution are concentrated. for particulate matter, but set up only two continuous “What’s scary,” according to Heindel, “is that no one is monitoring Charleston’s air quality in areas where people are most affected.” In other words, DHEC is monitoring, but not for acute exposure near the major sources of pollution. Among the port’s four terminals in Charleston, the Wando handles more cargo than the other three terminals combined. Frank Heindel Frank The equivalent of two ships idle continuously each day, spewing about one ton of particulate pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours. If this were a factory with smokestacks, the Wando terminal would be monitored and regulated by DHEC, but, because of a quirk in the law, port operations are currently not required to abide by the Clean Air Act. “Too many of us – black and white, rich and poor – live within close proximity of a port operation,” states Heindel, “potentially putting ourselves and our children at risk of chronic, life threatening illnesses. South Carolina must put in place a viable monitoring program with benchmarks for cleaner and more efficient port operations, as many ports around the country have done. If we don’t act now, we may be headed Is It Safe to Breathe? This one cargo ship docked at Mount toward a Los Angeles/Long Beach scenario, where, for example, Pleasant's Wando terminal can pollute as much as 350,000 cars. cancer rates inensify in proximity to port operations.”

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Solutions for Port Heindel Frank and Diesel Pollution n The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must strengthen both the annual average and 24-hour air quality standards for particulate matter in order to protect the public from health effects of short- and long-term exposures, as required by the Clean Air Act. [EPA is currently reviewing its air quality standards and is considering Clean Technologies Exist measures to strengthen them.] Singapore-based APL shipping line is testing a new technology at the Port of Oakland, CA, that enables ships to shut down their engines while in berth and plug into shoreside electric power, n EPA must regulate mobile source reducing air pollution. emissions (such as cargo and cruise ships) as mandated by the Clean Air Act. [EPA failed to meet its April 2007 deadline for setting n Support stronger vehicle emission standards. n Require diesel particulate filters emissions standards for ship engines.] or appropriate technology for all diesel n The S.C. Department of Health and Recently, SPA announced a new policy to powered vehicles and machines routinely Environmental Control (DHEC) and use cleaner-burning fuel in all diesel powered involved in port operations, and SPA must begin a systematic, thorough equipment at its Charleston terminals. n Establish automatic shut-offs, limits, monitoring program of air quality in According to the announcement, SPA’s 43 and incentives to reduce equipment and around all operations of the Port of mobile cranes that stack containers will be idling. Charleston. [SPA tests only every five the first machines to run on a new ultra low years and no tests have been conducted sulfur fuel, which will cut diesel emission since 2001. Furthermore, DHEC levels from the machines by approximately operates only two particulate monitoring 10%. Tanks that store fuel for about 70 What You Can Do sites in Charleston, neither of which is other pieces of equipment will be refilled located near the greatest concentrations of with the cleaner fuel when existing supplies pollution and people.] are depleted. The new policy is being n The Conservation League recommends implemented by SPA ahead of an EPA American Lung Association reducing diesel particulate pollution at all mandated deadline of July 2010. Like most www.lungusa.org Port of Charleston terminals by 50% by ports, SPA also has switched all but one of its Clean Air Task Force 2010, and by 90% by 2015. 21 giant container cranes to electric power, www.catf.us n All environmental health impacts must which is cleaner and cheaper than diesel. be thoroughly investigated before proceeding CharlestonCleanAir.com The Conservation League welcomes http://charlestoncleanair.com/ with expansion of the Port of Charleston these new policies and hopes that SPA – a port located in the heart of a growing will quickly implement further initiatives CleanEnergySC.com metropolitan area of 600,000 residents. to clean up the most significant sources www.CleanEnergySC.com The expansion, as proposed, could put the of port pollution, namely the ships, tugs, Charleston Green City Initiative Charleston region in violation of already trains and tractor-trailers that move cargo www.charlestoncity.info weak federal air quality standards. [SPA to and from the port. In many parts of should actively investigate alternative sites the nation, such required practices are Smart Growth America www.smartgrowthamerica.org for expansion that would impact fewer already in operation: residents and be more cost efficient.] n Require cleaner, low sulfur fuel for Smoke Free Alliance n Move more containers out of the calling ships within 10 miles of harbor; http://smokefreesc.blogspot.com region on rail instead of by truck. [The n Establish incentives for lower speeds Southern Environmental Law Center Conservation League proposes shipping for calling ships; www.southernenvironment.org 40% of containers at the new terminal by n Provide shoreside power for ships at berth; rail by 2015, and 70% by 2025.]

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n Support a moratorium on all new coal fired power plants until all avenues of energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy alternatives have been fully explored. [Duke Power and Progress Energy, along with South Carolina’s 20 electric cooperatives, have proposed initiatives in the Carolinas to generate more power from efficiency and smarter power use than Santee Cooper’s proposed new coal plant would produce. Two studies Speak Up for Public Health – In September, the Army Corps recently commissioned by S.C.’s cooperatives, which serve 1.6 of Engineers held public hearings in Conway and Florence as part of the million residents, found that the state’s utilities can increase Environmental Impact Statement process for the proposed Santee Cooper their green energy capacity by 665 megawatts in the next decade coal fired electric generation plant on the Great Pee Dee River. During the allotted time for public comment, 77 attendees spoke against the plant. and consumers can cut their power use by 25% or more by Only six spoke in favor. 2017 through implementation of efficiency, conservation, and renewable energy measures.] fired power plant emissions. [According to EPA, technology both n Support the development of a state energy policy for South available today and anticipated in the near future can eliminate Carolina. most of the mercury from utilities at a cost far lower than one n Support a national tax on carbon that would internalize the percent of utility industry revenues. For example, states such costs of CO2 pollution and create incentives for the development of as Florida and Massachusetts have required mercury controls alternative energy sources. that have dramatically reduced the mercury levels in nearby fish n Implement reliable and affordable technology, already in populations. In North Carolina, all power plants have been existence today, that can eliminate 90-95% of mercury from coal required to reduce their mercury pollution as of November 2006.]

Check out the Following Curing Sprawl What You Can Do Spees Wade Groups & Web Sites n Invest in “complete streets” and improved facilities for biking and walking, such as sidewalks and Take Action At: bike lanes. n Install traffic calming measures www.CoastalConservationLeague.org to slow down cars. n Create “Safe Routes to School" n Contact your DHEC commissioners urging programs that focus on helping them to implement a monitoring and Best children walk and bike to school. Americans want to bicycle! Management Program at each of the four n Support zoning and land use Recent national polls have found that 55% terminals comprising the Port of Charleston. policies that promote compact, of Americans would like to walk more instead of drive, and 52% would like to n Contact ACOE, DHEC and Santee Cooper walkable neighborhoods that are bicycle more. to oppose the construction of a new coal fired pedestrian-centered instead of power plant on the Great Pee Dee River. auto-dependent. community, including mass n Write your newspapers and representatives n Create incentives for residential transit where feasible. citing the urgent need for data on human health areas to be located near where n Focus development around and the environment, especially in areas where people shop and work. transit stops and already existing there are high concentrations of pollution and n Support neighborhood schools to infrastructure. people. enable families to walk and bike n Revitalize older neighborhoods n Support annexation reform and coordinated to school. that are already walkable. land use planning statewide. n Support transportation policies n Retrofit sprawling neighborhoods. that promote a wide variety n Support stronger fuel efficiency of transportation options in your standards.

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Department of Transportation Tish Lynn Tish (DOT) Reform is Now Law

After eight months of intense work, the Conservation League celebrated a huge victory on June 27th when Governor Sanford signed the long awaited DOT Reform bill into law. Act 114 includes four of the League’s five transportation improvement priorities, ensuring that: 1) Real public hearings will be held on large transportation projects; 2) The state’s highest funding priorities will include those roads and DOT Reform Signed Into Law – Governor Sanford (seated) is surrounded by the bridges that are consistent with local many supporters of DOT reform who worked tirelessly on behalf of better transportation land use plans, and 3) Chosen projects policy for South Carolina. Our own Patty Pierce stands at far right. will provide the greatest economic benefits with the least environmental Representatives Annette Young (R- its 36 member-organizations, also impacts. Berkeley), Jim Merrill (R-Berkeley), deserves a big round of applause for its Senators Glenn McConnell (R- and Mike Anthony (D-Union) deserve letter writing efforts, frequent trips to Charleston), Hugh Leatherman special thanks for their constant Columbia, and support of the League’s (R-Florence), Larry Grooms (R- support of our reform priorities in efforts to de-politicize the way that Berkeley), Tommy Moore (D-Aiken), subcommittee, committee, and during future transportation project decisions and Greg Ryberg (R-Aiken), Speaker floor debates. will be made in South Carolina. Bobby Harrell (R-Charleston) and The DOT Reform Coalition, with

Conservation Bank as mitigation for DOT roads, notably I-73, and the construction of new boat Funding Increased ramps. We owe particular thanks to those who defended the Bank’s base For the last three years, the funding of approximately $18 million Conservation Bank has been the most (generated by deed recording fees): important source of funding for land Representatives Jeff Duncan (R- conservation in South Carolina with its Laurens), Ben Hagood (R-Charleston), protection of 107,551 acres of natural Bill Herbkersman (R-Beaufort), Chip and historic properties across the state. Limehouse(R-Charleston), Harry But the rapid rate of development Ott (D-Calhoun), John Scott (D- in South Carolina (nearly 200 acres Richland), Bakari Sellers (D-Bamburg), developed each day) far exceeds the Leon Stavrinakis (D-Charleston), Mac Bank. The following Budget Conference amount of land we are protecting. Toole (R-Lexington), David Umphlett Committee members ultimately More money must be allocated for the (R-Berkeley), and Seth Whipper (D- approved these new funds: Senators purchase of rural land. Towards this goal, Charleston). Leatherman, John Land (D-Clarendon) the League and its conservation partners In the Senate, the League worked and Harvey Peeler (R-Cherokee) and worked tirelessly this year to add even with Senators Hugh Leatherman Representatives Dan Cooper (R- more funding to the highly successful (R-Florence), Yancey McGill (D- Anderson), Tracy Edge (R-Horry) Conservation Bank. Williamsburg) and John Courson and Denny Neilson (D-Darlington). In the House, the League defeated (R-Richland) to secure an additional Our thanks to all of these conservation numerous attempts to divert existing $5 million for the Conservation leaders. Bank dollars to other projects, such

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River Shacks Eliminated from Public Waters Patrick Moore Patrick

By 2012 all “river shacks” will be eliminated from our public trust waters, thanks to passage of H. 3466 championed by Representative David Umphlett (R-Berkeley) on May 24th, 2007. Working hand-in-hand with the Department of Natural Resources, Santee Cooper, the SC Attorney General’s office, and key legislators – Senators Greg Gregory (R-Lancaster), who sponsored the Senate companion bill, Vince Sheheen (D-Kershaw), and Chip Campsen and Representatives An Eyesore No More – An eyesore and a navigation hazard, the river shack will no longer Billy Witherspoon (R-Horry) and be allowed in South Carolina’s public waterways. Dwight Loftis (R-Greenville) – the League ensured that these polluting shacks, which have been an eyesore and a Mercury Pollution Community hindrance to river navigation for decades, Must Cease Protections will cease to exist in the near future. Maintained The Conservation League has ensured Green Building that over the next fifteen years, South The League spearheaded the creation Carolina utilities will be required to lower A Go! of the grassroots Community Protections mercury emissions and reduce mercury Coalition, comprised of 39 member- pollution in our state by supporting South Carolina took a giant leap organizations, and successfully thwarted amendments to South Carolina’s Air the introduction of regulatory takings forward towards energy independence Pollution Control Regulations and this session with passage of H.3034, legislation this legislative session. Standards. Our thanks go to members Working closely with members of the “green buildings” legislation, by of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Representative Joan Brady (R-Richland). Eminent Domain Study Committee, the the House Agriculture, Natural Resources Coalition testified at hearings; wrote op- Now, new construction of all state- and Environmental Affairs Committee for funded facilities of 10,000 square feet eds, and suggested reasonable compromise agreeing to take this first, significant step proposals to improve community or greater and those requiring certain towards reducing mercury pollution in renovations must meet “green building” involvement and notification of zoning our state. changes. sustainable construction standards. These standards lay the groundwork A Gubernatorial veto of the bill was We owe a great deal of thanks to for introducing more protective air Senators Greg Gregory (R-Lancaster), surprising, especially given Governor pollution policies in the future. Time Sanford’s creation of the Climate, Energy Chip Campsen (R-Charleston) is of the essence. Since the Department and Robert Ford (D- Charleston), and Commerce Advisory Committee of Health and Environmental Control this year, but the League, with the aid Representatives Tracy Edge (R-Horry), (DHEC) has already recorded elevated Jim Merrill (R-Berkeley) and Creighton of Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg) mercury levels in all of South Carolina’s and Representatives Harry Cato (R- Coleman (D-Fairfield), and Gubernatorial major water bodies due to coal fired appointees: Tammy Mcknew (Greenville), Greenville) and Joan Brady, helped power plant emmissions, the League override the veto in the House, 90-13. Robert Clement (Charleston) and Ben will continue to work hard to identify Ziegler (Florence) for their continued H. 3034 then passed unanimously in the new legislative initiatives that can Senate. opposition to regulatory takings further reduce mercury pollution in our legislation and for their support of the environment. protection of communities’ rights.

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Tour of Auldbrass – Thanks to Joel Silver for welcoming Conservation League members to a special fall tour of Auldbrass, his home near Yemassee designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939. League member and property manager Scott McNair led the tour. Chris Tate Chris Tish Lynn Tish

Gathering at Charleston Naval Yard Conservationists Celebrate – Gretchen Tate, Alison (l-r) DuBose Griffin, Dana Beach and Katherine Graham Whetstone, Thea and Whitney Riley, and Chuck Heilig celebrate the future enjoy the Conservation League’s “Future is Ours” party at 10 with other young conservationists at the League’s “Future is Ours” party. Storehouse Row. Tish Lynn Tish Lynn Tish

The Future is Ours – (l-r) Michael and Lauren Whitfield, Reggae and BBQ – (l-r) Valerie McGee, League board Meghan, Clare and Jeff Webster join more than 250 young Charleston and member Robert Prioleau, and Daniel James enjoy Mystic Vibrations reggae North Charelston area conservationists for reggae and bar-b-que at the band and bar-b-que by Sewee Outpost at the “Future is Ours” celebration. Charleston Naval Yard. c o a s t a l c o n s e r v a t i o n l e a g u e Members’ Corner

Vicki Verity & Dick Hale Join League Board Tish Lynn Tish

Born and raised in Lake Forest, Illinois, Vicki Verity credits her parents as her first environmental influence. “I went to summer nature camp when I was very young and started caring about conservation there,” she explains. “A biology major at Sweet Briar College furthered my interest as did later memberships in the Garden Club of America, on the Women’s Board of the Chicago Botanic Lunch Under the Oaks – League supporters enjoy lunch Garden, and on the Board of the Cincinnati Zoo and under the live oaks of Auldbrass. Botanical Garden.” After 38 years in banking, Vicki and her husband, Jon Verity, moved from Chicago to Beaufort in 2005, following Jon’s parents who had retired to the area more than 20 years ago. The Veritys quickly became concerned about the proliferation of sprawl that was Alison Whetstone Alison threatening the Lowcountry landscape. Through Cathy Forrester, Vicki was introduced to the Conservation League. We are honored to have Vicki serve on the board. We also welcome Dick Hale to the Conservation League board. Dick grew up in the Philadelphia area and graduated with a B.A. in English from Yale and an MBA in Finance from Paddling the Edisto – Pete Laurie and Cindy Floyd navigate the black waters of the Edisto River on a Conservation League outing this summer. the Wharton School. He first came to Charleston as a gunnery officer aboard a navy destroyer before beginning his banking career in securities and Tish Lynn Tish investments, the majority of which was spent with Alex Brown & Sons in Baltimore (later bought out by Deutsche Bank). For 13 years, Dick served on the board of Bryn Mawr School for Girls and was also President of the Guilford Association – a neighborhood improvement association in Baltimore. Three years ago, he and his wife, Eleanor, bought a second home in downtown Charleston and soon joined the Conservation League. Members Updated on Issues – After a tour and lunch at Says Dick, “We had been in and out of Charleston Auldbrass, League members are updated by South Coast Office Director Patrick over the years and became interested in the work of Moore on issues regarding annexation reform and proposed development at the League. Its mission is particularly important as nearby Binden Plantation. (Property manager and tour organizer Scott McNair development pressures increase in the area.” is in red shirt in center.) c o a s t a l c o n s e r v a t i o n l e a g u e In House

Staff News in 2001. Ben is an avid music buff and enjoys spending time with his wife, Jan. Brian Barrie Brian joined the League in June and brings Art von Lehe with him many years of experience in Art also recently joined the League. A native communications, publications, and information South Carolinian, he grew up spending much Brian technology. A Charleston native, Brian spent of his time outdoors in Mount Pleasant where eight years working for the Democratic he discovered his interest in the natural heritage Leadership of the U.S. Senate in Internet and of the state. Art has a B.S. in Environmental media relations doing everything from creating Studies from the University of North Carolina at Web sites to setting up press conferences. Since Asheville, a Masters of Studies in Environmental returning to Charleston in 2005, Brian has been Law from Vermont Law School, and a law degree working as a freelance Web consultant primarily from the University of South Carolina. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, surfing, riding bikes, for clients in the Washington, D.C. area. Brian Ben and his wife, Cathy, live in Mt. Pleasant where swimming, and playing bass. they are able to take their young son, Evan (featured on our cover), to the beach whenever Jim Cumberland he wants, which is frequently. Also joining the League this year, Jim graduated with honors from Gettysburg College with a B.A. Ben Moore in English, going on to earn a law degree from Ben joined the League this year after receiving a George Washington University Law School in Masters degree in Environmental Management 1998. Since then he has worked on Capitol Hill Art from the Nicholas School of the Environment for the House Energy & Commerce Committee at Duke University with a certificate in Energy and for EPA. In South Carolina, he has served and the Environment. Before graduate school, on the adjunct faculty at the University of South he worked as an environmental educator. At the Carolina School of Law and worked for the League, he focuses on climate change and energy USC Institute for Public Service and the S.C. policy. Ben grew up in Jacksonville, Fl. with Department of Education. In Columbia, Jim close family ties to the Carolinas. He earned a enjoys relaxing with his partner Kim, daughter Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College Tayte, son Simon, and their three cats. Jim

Congratulations to...

Elizabeth Hagood for being selected as a Liberty Fellow, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Wofford College. The program’s mission is to develop outstanding professional leadership qualities among South Carolina’s most promising citizens; Megan and Michael Desrosiers on the birth of their son, Luca Russell Desrosiers, born on July 25th and weighing in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces; Julie and Mark Frye (Julie is our newsletter designer) on the birth of their son William "Brady" Frye, born on June 18th and weighing in at 6 pounds, 13 ounces, And Jess Barton for her appointment as Grassrooots Coordinator for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Brady Luca

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18 Thank You!

Contributions Received from September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2007 The Coastal Conservation League works very hard to ensure that all donor names are listed correctly; however, occasional mistakes do occur. Please contact the Development Live Oak Society Office at (843) 723-8035, ext. 1103 with any questions or corrections.

$10,000+ Daniel K. Thorne Foundation The Hilliard Family Foundation, Inc. Anonymous (2) Gary and Mary Beth Thornhill Mr. and Mrs. George P. Johnston Penny and Bill Agnew Jane Smith Turner Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Todd P. Joye American Rivers, Inc. Turner Foundation Ms. Nunally Kersh and Mr. Robert Stehling Mr. and Mrs. Harrison H. Augur Mr. and Mrs. James C. Vardell III Linda Ketner and Beth Huntley Anthony and Linda Bakker Yawkey Foundation Charlie and Sally Lee Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation The Suzanne and Bruce Lindsay Charitable Foundation The Gilbert & Ildiko Butler Conservation Fund, Inc. $5,000 - $9,999 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Maize, Jr. Charlotte Caldwell and Jeffrey Schutz Anonymous (2) Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Mather Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Anheuser-Busch’s “Keep it Natural Carolinas” Program Mr. and Mrs. David Maybank III Ceres Foundation, Inc. John and Jane Beach Mr. and Mrs. John McCormick Mr. and Mrs. Jamie W. Constance Henry M. Blackmer Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Barclay McFadden III Mr. Ted Dintersmith and Ms. Elizabeth Hazard Mrs. Margaret N. Blackmer Mr. and Mrs. James O. Mills Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Chitty Mrs. Sally H. Mitchell Dr. and Mrs. Strachan Donnelley Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Cooper III Mr. James W. Mozley Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence David Dwyer Mrs. Edith C. Crocker Mr. Guy Paschal Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Fair, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Huff Charles and Celeste Patrick The Festoon Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Margaret M. Davis Mr. and Mrs. David Paynter Dorothea and Peter Frank Mr. Richard W. Hutson, Jr. Max and Helen Philippson Foundation Nancy and Larry Fuller Mr. and Mrs. John E. Masaschi Mrs. Joan C. Pittman Laura and Steve Gates Mr. and Mrs. Irenee duPont May Mrs. Charles D. Ravenel Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. David Maybank, Jr. Grace Jones Richardson Trust Godric Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James O. Mills Mr. and Mrs. James H. Rion Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Graham Mrs. Alexander Moore Mr. John M. Rivers, Jr. Mr. Henry F. Hagerty Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Tenney John M. Rivers, Jr. Foundation, Inc. Eleanor & Henry Hitchcock Charitable Foundation H.L. Thompson, Jr. Family Foundation David W. and Susan G. Robinson Foundation Holly H. Hook and Dennis A. Glaves Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Williams Mr. and Mrs. David W. Robinson Mr. Hank Holliday Henry and Sylvia Yaschik Foundation, Inc. Margot and Boykin Rose Billie and Alan Houghton Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schaller Mr. John R. Hunting $2,000 - $4,999 Mr. H. Del Schutte, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Lane Mr. J. Anderson Berly III Col. and Mrs. D. M. Scott, Jr. Mr. Hugh C. Lane, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. C. Austin Buck Ms. Martha Jane Soltow Mills Bee Lane Foundation Mrs. Hilary Cadwallader-Philippson Mr. and Mrs. T. Paul Strickler Lasca and Richard Lilly Nancy and Billy Cave Ms. Margaretta Taylor Mr. T. Cartter Lupton II Mr. and Mrs. James J. Chaffin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jacques S. Theriot Lyndhurst Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cleveland Mr. Robert L. Underwood Dr. and Mrs. Walter C. Meier Dr. Katherine Close Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Wyrick, Jr. Merck Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Coen Mr. and Mrs. Loren Ziff Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Chip and Betty Coffee Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Ziff The Osprey Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cowgill Ziff Properties Charleston Mr. and Mrs. Howard Phipps, Jr. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Steven and Barbara Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Eaton III $1,000 - $1,999 Rockefeller Family Fund Herbert J. Everts Anonymous (1) Mr. and Mrs. Peter Roy Mr. and Mrs. Peter Feldman Mr. and Mrs. John J. Avlon Mrs. Anne Rivers Siddons and Mr. Heyward Siddons James L. Ferguson Ms. Molly H. Ball Ms. Dorothy D. Smith Mr. James R. Gilreath Mr. Arthur L. Baron Libby Smith Mr. Vincent G. Graham Mr. and Mrs. William R. Barrett, Jr. Fred and Alice Stanback, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gulbrandsen Mrs. Ann R. Baruch Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Tenney Half-Moon Outfitters Edward and Adelaida Bennett Mr. Daniel K. Thorne Mr. and Mrs. R. Glenn Hilliard Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation Live Oak Society

Anonymous (1) COASTAL LEGACY SOCIETY Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Foundation The Coastal Legacy Society honors those who have provided Russell and Judith Burns Charlotte Caldwell for the Coastal Conservation League through their wills or estate plans. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Coffee, Jr. Ms. Marcia Curtis By making a gift to the Coastal Legacy Society, you will join this Howard Drew group of extraordinary individuals in their commitment to protect Carol B. Ervin Dr. Annette G. Godow the Lowcountry for generations. If you are interested in finding out more about Miss Florence E. Goodwin naming the Coastal Conservation League in your will or estate plans, please Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Liles Dr. Thomas R. Mather contact Development Director, Miles F. McSweeney Tish Lynn at (843) 725-2065. Ellen and Mayo Read Mr. and Mrs. John J. Tecklenburg c o a s t a l c o n s e r v a t i o n l e a g u e Janis Hammett-Wegman and Charles Wegman 19 Thank You!

Dr. Eloise Bradham and Dr. Mark George Mr. and Mrs. Alan A. Moses Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. Dudley Ms. Amy Bunting Mr. P. Sherrill Neff and Ms. Alicia Felton Mr. D. Reid Ellis Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Foundation Mr. John C. Oliver Ms. Nina M. Fair Bob and Cris Cain Ms. Elizabeth F. Orser Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Fenning Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Carson, Jr. Dr. Robert Payne and Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas Mr. Robert W. Foster, Sr. Mr. T. Heyward Carter III Mr. J. Randolph Pelzer Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Fretz Mr. Anthony Cecil Plantation Services, Inc. Mr. Robert M. Gallant Clement Crawford and Thornhill, Inc Mr. and Mrs. Ron C. Plunkett Ms. Heather R. Garrison Mr. Elliott S. Close Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Prevost Mr. and Mrs. E. Stack Gately Coastal Expeditions Robert and Rachel Prioleau Drs. Andrew Geer and Susan Moore Mr. and Mrs. James Coker Mr. and Mrs. S. Kim Reed Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Geer Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Crawford The Little-Reid Conservation Fund of the Mr. Jerome Gerson Nancy and Steve Cregg Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Mr. and Mrs. Reginald L. Gibson Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Cross Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation Dr. Annette G. Godow Mr. and Mrs. Wade C. Crow Mr. and Mrs. William R. Richardson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Gene W. Grace Mr. Hal Currey and Ms. Margaret Schachte Bob Rymer and Catherine Anne Walsh Dr. Carol M. Graf Mrs. Mary C. Cutler Santee Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Phil T. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Cutler, Jr. SCANA Services, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Griffith, Jr. Jane Tucker Dana and David D. Aufhauser Mr. Lee Schepps and Ms. Barbara Cottrell Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hagood Mr. R. Gordon Darby Mr. and Mrs. T. Grange Simons V Dr. Angela Halfacre Mrs. Jane Blair Bunting Darnell Southern States Educational Foundation Inc. Mr. Alvin Hammer Ms. Rebecca R. Davenport James Gustave Speth Fund for the Environment Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Happe The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations of the Open Space Institute, Inc. Dr. Kit M. Hargrove Michael and Megan Desrosiers Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Storen Mr. and Mrs. D. George Harris Ms. Elizabeth Deyermond and Mr. Paul Zeisler Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sturgis Ms. Page Harris and Mr. Robert C. Pavlechko Mr. and Mrs. P. Steven Dopp William and Shanna Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Hart Mr. and Mrs. F. Reed Dulany, Jr. Charles and Jo Summerall Ms. Katharine M. Hartley T. Truxtun Emerson Family Fund of the Fidelity Mr. and Mrs. Jan S. Suwinski Whitney and Elizabeth Hatch Charitable Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Symington, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Haugh Ms. Margaret D. Fabri The Brumley Family Foundation Trust Mr. A. T. Heath III Mr. and Mrs. George W. Fennell Tidelands Bank Mr. William J. Hennessy, Jr. Mr. Scott Fennell Don and Rose Tomlin Mr. Fred B. Herrmann Mr. Charles Fetter Ms. Martha M. Upson Hilton Head Island Audubon Society Dr. and Mrs. Gary E. Fink Mr. and Mrs. Greg Vanderwerker Mr. and Mrs. Keith Hinson Dr. and Mrs. Philip A. Finley Susan and Trenholm Walker Mr. and Mrs. John Adams Hodge Mrs. Emory K. Floyd Mr. Ron G. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Steve Hoffius Mr. and Mrs. James C. Fort Mr. and Mrs. Cyril M. Wolff Mr. J. W. F. Holliday

Rev. and Mrs. David Fort Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Horlbeck Live Oak Society Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence T. Foster $500 - $999 James and Page Hungerpiller Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Adams, Jr. Stephanie and Noel Hunt Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gephart, Jr. Ms. Carrie Agnew Mr. Leroy Hutchinson and Ms. Julia Eichelberger Mr. and Mrs. W. Andrew Gowder, Jr. F.E. Agnew Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Ms. Mary Pope M. Hutson Mr. Lincoln Groom Dr. and Mrs. Scott H. Allen Mr. H. W. Igleheart Mrs. Marjorie T. Groom Drs. T. Brantley and Penny Arnau Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Jackson, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Richard C. Hagerty Ms. Vivian D’Amato Asche Mr. and Mrs. George R. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. D. Maybank Hagood Chuck and Betsy Baker Ms. May Jones Blair and Nancy Hahn Mr. Leslie L. Bateson Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Hale Lee Batten Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Kammer Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Harrell Mr. and Mrs. Wise H. Batten Mr. and Mrs. Marvin P. Kimmel Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Hawkins Mrs. Mary Ruth Baxter James E. and Anne B. Kistler Charitable Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Heusel Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Beaton Trust of The U. S. Charitable Gift Trust Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Beattie Mrs. Dudley Knott Mrs. Robert Huffman Mrs. Charles Becker Mr. Ed Kozek Mr. Patrick Ilderton Dr. and Mrs. William Black Melissa and Michael Ladd Holly Jensen and Marty Morganello Blackbaud, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Landing Mr. and Mrs. John Phillip Kassebaum Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Blagden, Jr. Lois Lane and Cary Weber Dr. William Kee Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bluford Mr. Terrence C. Larimer Dr. and Mrs. John J. Keyser Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Bonyun III Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Lawson Mrs. Harriet Keyserling Cecil and Barrie Bozard Mr. and Mrs. Wood N. Lay Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Kienke Mr. Keith S. Brown Robert and Dione Leak Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kimball Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan E. Buchan Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Eric Klein Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Cable, Jr. Leigh Mary W. Carter Foundation Mrs. Hugh C. Lane Mr. William Campbell and Ms. Susan Hilfer Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Leland Bob and Jackie Lane Mr. Leigh Carter Elizabeth C. Rivers Lewine Endowment Ms. Jane E. Lareau Leigh Mary W. Carter Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lanneau D. Lide Dr. Franklin Lee Mr. and Mrs. T. Heyward Carter, Jr. Mr. David Lott David Lyle and Anne Aaron-Lyle Dr. H. Paul Cooler Mrs. Walden E. Lown Magnolia Plantation Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Cooper Tish Lynn Mike and JoAnne Marcell Mr. Jack Cordray Dr. and Mrs. John C. Maize Mr. and Mrs. William F. Marscher II The Honorable and Mrs. John E. Courson Ms. Lee Manigault Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Marshall Dr. and Mrs. L. Bradford Courtney Mrs. Patti Manigault John F. & Susan B. McNamara Fund of the Fidelity Martha Craft-Essig Dr. G. Alex Marsh Charitable Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. John Crawford Mr. Miles Martschink Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. McShane Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Daniels Dr. and Mrs. Brem Mayer Mr. P.O. Mead III Mr. Chris Davis Rudolph and Beverly Mayer Kincaid and Allison Mills Curtis and Arianna Derrick Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. McCann Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Mitchell, Jr. Ms. Ann W. Dibble Mrs. Frank M. McClain Mr. and Mrs. M. Lane Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Dodds Pat F. and Suzanne C. McGarity

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Mr. and Mrs. James D. McGraw Dr. and Mrs. James C. Reynolds The Barker Welfare Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Earl McMillen III Dr. Georgia C. Roane Mr. Landon K. Thorne III Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mills III Mr. and Mrs. Cliff H. Rusch Mr. and Mrs. F. David Trickey Mr. and Mrs. John M. Mirsky Dr. and Mrs. Mark H. Salley Tom Uffelman and Patty Bennett Mr. Michael Mitchell and Ms. Jamie Snyder Mr. Richard B. Saxon United Way of the Piedmont Mrs. Mary Alice Monroe and Dr. Markus Kruesi Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Schenck Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webb Mr. Hugh C. Morrison P. Gren Schoch Sally Webb Mr. and Mrs. C. Lawrence Murphy Dickie and Mary Schweers Ms. Barbara L. Welch Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Norvell Sea Biscuit Café Dr. and Mrs. James D. Wells Norvell Real Estate Group, LLC Dr. Sally E. Self Ms. Sheila Wertimer and Mr. Gary Gruca Dr. and Mrs. Alan I. Nussbaum Mr. Grant G. Simmons, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. West Ogden Family Fund of the Summit Area Dr. and Mrs. William M. Simpson, Jr. Mr. William Westerkam and Ms. Kirsten Lackstrom Public Foundation Mr. G. Dana Sinkler Alison Whetstone Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Ogilvie Dr. Cynthia P. Smith Mr. Roger White and Dr. Deanna Jackson Dr. and Mrs. J. David Osguthorpe Mr. and Mrs. Gary Smith Dr. Dara H. Wilber Mr. and Mrs. Coleman C. Owens Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Smythe, Jr. Ms. Margaret A. Williams Mr. Lucas C. Padgett Dr. and Mrs. J. Richard Sosnowski Mr. B. F. Williamson Dr. and Mrs. B. Daniel Paysinger Col. and Mrs. Walter C. Stanton Mr. and Mrs. John Winthrop Mr. John E. Perry Summit Area Public Foundation Dr. Henry P. Worrell Ms. Cynthia Powell The Surkin Family Charitable Fund of the Ms. Martha C. Worthy Mr. Frank W. Rambo Schwab Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Ransome III The Sywolski Family Charitable Fund of the Vanguard The Honorable Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Charitable Endowment Program Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Rensberry Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Terebus

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SPECIAL GIFTS Ms. Cindy Floyd and Mr. Pete Laurie CONTRIBUTOR ($100 - $249) Ms. Paula W. Byers Anonymous (1) Mr. Robert F. Furchgott Anonymous (2) Ms. Ann Campbell-Lord Ms. Molly H. Ball Mr. J. Lee Gastley Dr. David B. Adams Ms. Cornelia Carrier Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Beattie Mary Jane Gorman Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Ailes Mr. Frank B. Cates Mr. Arthur K. Cates Ms. Mary Louise Graff Ameriprise Financial Employee Giving Mr. and Mrs. George K. Chastain Mr. and Mrs. Jamie W. Constance Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Grimball Campaign Mr. and Mrs. David Clark Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence David Dwyer Dr. Gail J. Guzzo Mr. Thomas Angell James C. Cochrane Mr. Robert F. Furchgott Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hammet, Sr. Ms. Katharine W. Bacon Dr. and Mrs. Alexander H. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. John F. Green Ms. Janis C. Hammett Col. Frances G. Ballentine, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hiler Mr. and Mrs. William R. Hare Ms. Jean R. Ballentine Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Cook, Jr. James Island Charter High School Mr. Richard F. Hendry Mrs. Mary L. Ballou Mr. and Mrs. Robert Corning Interact Club Mr. and Mrs. George Hilton Mrs. Mario D. Banus Mr. David S. Cox and Dr. Pamela Cox Jutte Keep Chechessee Rural Alliance Historic Charleston Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Scott Y. Barnes Mr. and Mrs. John T. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Richards C. Lewis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hollings, Jr. Barrier Island Eco Tours Mr. and Mrs. David A. Creech Mr. and Mrs. Cisco Lindsey Ms. Nancy Houser Vickie O. Baumann Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Dana Mr. and Mrs. William M. Matthew Nora Kravec and Charles Cyr Mr. S. Stiles Bee III Mr. David L. Daniel Ms. Cynthia Powell Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Kusko Mr. Edgar A. Bergholtz Mr. Reggie F. Daves Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Quattlebaum III Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. Lee Mr. Charles J. Bethea Ms. Susan G. Dickson Quattlebaum Brothers, L.L.C. Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Liles Ms. Laura Ann Blake-Orr Ms. Martha Browning Dicus Mr. and Mrs. Scott Quattlebaum Mrs. Caroline A. Lord Ms. Nancy Bloodgood Ms. Mary Douglass and Mr. Tom Jones Mr. Charles S. Ragsdale Timothy J. Lyons, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan B. Blossom Mr. Charles H. Drayton Mr. and Mrs. T. Smith Ragsdale III Mrs. Octavia M. Mahon Mr. and Mrs. John D. Bowe Mr. Michael Ebert Dr. Judy A. Shillito Dr. and Mrs. Michael A. Maginnis Ms. Evelyn Bowler Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Eddy Harriet Smartt Jacki Martin Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Bowling Dr. John Emmel and Ms. Deborah Gessert Dr. Jay H. Stokes, Jr. Ms. Christie McGregor Dr. Eloise A. Bradham Mr. C. R. Ewing Mr. Jeffrey Nesmith Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Brand II Mr. Marion Tryon Face ADVOCATE ($250 - $499) Mr. and Mrs. William D. Nettles, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bresnahan Ms. Angie C. Flanagan Anonymous (1) Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Palmer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eric Brown Ms. Joan M. Fort Ms. Kate B. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Prioleau Ms. Brenda Burbage Dr. Nathan P. Fredrick Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Anderson Lydia Engelhardt, M.D. and Bill Rambo, M.D. Mr. Malcolm Burgis Dr. Sidney Gauthreaux and Ms. Carroll Mr. and Mrs. James J. Bailey Ms. Heather Spires Ms. Barbara H. Burwell Belser Dr. R. Randy Basinger Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Spivey Virginia and Dana Beach Ms. Louise A. Steffens Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Bowers Mr. and Mrs. John J. Tecklenburg Double the Difference! Mr. and Mrs. Hardwick H. Burr Drs. Christine and C. Murry Thompson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Burson Mr. and Mrs. William Foxworth Thompson Want to help the Conservation League? Ask a friend or Alyssondra Campaigne Mr. and Mrs. Norman Walsh neighbor to join now. There isn’t a greater time to DOUBLE Mr. R. R. M. Carpenter Billy Want and Sharon Bennett Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Costner Mr. and Mrs. Kurt O. Wassen THE DIFFERENCE in protecting our beautiful coastal plains. A Dr. and Mrs. William F. Crosswell Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Westbrook very generous anonymous donor has offered the League a $15,000 Mrs. Nadine Darby Ms. Carolee Williams and matching grant, through the Coastal Community Foundation. For Mr. and Mrs. Timothy G. Dargan Mr. Douglas James Curtis and Arianna Derrick Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Williamson each New Member dollar, they will match a dollar. New neighbor, Mr. and Mrs. James K. Dias Mr. and Mrs. D. Mark Wilson new club member, new friend? Introduce them to the League and Dr. and Mrs. Perry W. Durant Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Zolman DOUBLE THE DIFFERENCE! Share your newsletter or send Mr. Todd Fairfax Feldmann Family Fund of the Fidelity them to the Web site to join online. Charitable Gift Fund

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IRA Charity Tax Break Expires Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Berretta D. H. Robinson, M.D. and J. W. Lawther, Ph.D December 31st Mrs. Wendy Blackburn Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Lee Are you 70 ½ years of age or older? If you are, or will be Ms. Margaret Bobo Mr. and Mrs. Walter K. Lewis, Jr. Drs. William and Sallie Boggs Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Linker before December 31st, you may make a tax-free, “qualified Mr. John H. Boineau Dr. I. Grier Linton, Jr. charitable distribution” (QDC) from your IRA of up to $100,000 Mr. and Mrs. Barry M. Bonk Mr. and Mrs. Langdon D. Long to the Coastal Conservation League thanks to the 2006 Pension Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bracken Ms. Madge G. Major Mr. Alfred V. Brown, Jr. Robert Malone Protection Act. Not only will you benefit CCL, but the gift will also Mr. and Mrs. Don M. Brown Ms. Jean E. Manning count towards your required minimum distribution. Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Bryan, Jr. Ms. Helen R. Marine Mr. John R. Busher Mrs. Evelyn C. Marion Your IRA custodian must send the funds directly to CCL, so Mrs. Angie Y. Calhoun Mr. and Mrs. J. Quitman Marshall III be sure to discuss the details with your financial advisor . . . Mr. David Camp Mr. Joshua Martin and Thank You ! Joe and Damaris Cardisco Mr. Frederick F. Masad Ms. Terry Carson and Mr. Michael Scruggs Mrs. Elizabeth G. Matthew Ms. Lynn C. Chiappone Mr. and Mrs. Marshall T. Mays Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Clapp Mr. John W. McCord Dr. Donald Gordon and Dr. April Gordon Mr. and Mrs. David J. Painter Mrs. Linda Cobb Dr. and Mrs. Kelly T. McKee Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Hadley Mrs. Eleanor H. Parker Nathan Conkle Mr. and Mrs. Scott McNair Mrs. Robert Hall Mr. and Mrs. William F. Pennebaker Ms. Pam Creech Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Mendelsohn Ms. Robin L. Hardin Lindsey Peterson Daniel Island Mortgage, Inc. Mrs. Gwen Mettlen Dr. and Mrs. Julian R. Harrison Ms. Jennifer Phillips Mrs. M. Penelope Davis Mr. C.E. Miller, Jr. Mr. John Hartz Mr. and Mrs. George B. Post, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. P. Michael Davis Dr. Page Putnam Miller Mr. and Mrs. J. Drayton Hastie, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Jan H. Postma, Jr. Mr. Thomas Davis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin E. Milliken, Jr. Mrs. Eaddy W. Hayes Mrs. Delia Pridgen Mr. Andrew R. de Holl Mrs. Jean F. Moody Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Hazard Mr. John L. Quigley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Debrux Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Moore Mr. and Mrs. Brian R. Hill Ms. Cheryl Randall Dr. and Mrs. F. Carl Derrick, III Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Morgenstern Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Hines Dr. and Mrs. John H. Rashford Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Dieter Ms. Elizabeth Mullin Mr. and Mrs. David G. Hodges Mr. John W. Ray Mr. and Mrs. George N. Dorn, Jr. Susan and Kelly Murphy Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Rebhan Capt. Robert A. Doyle USMC Mr. Bruce A. Nelson Mr. S. G. House Dr. and Mrs. George B. Richardson Carol Draeger Mr. Walter A. Notton and Mrs. Linnea Mrs. Dorothy R. Huggins Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Ritchie Ms. Valerie Durkalski and Mr. Patrick Rogers-Notton Mr. and Mrs. Alan S. Humphreys, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Rivers, Jr. Mauldin Mr. and Mrs. D. Henry Ohlandt Islandscape Landscaping Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Robling Paula Edwards Mrs. Hierome L. Opie Mr. George Ivey Mr. and Mrs. Steven Rosenzweig Mr. John Eveleigh Mr. and Mrs. Archie W. Outlaw Ms. Dale McElveen Jaeger Mr. Legrand A. Rouse II Ms. Emily M. Ferrara Mr. and Mrs. Matthew D. Pardieck Mr. Robert A. Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Schiffer Mr. Charles E. Foster Mr. Douglas C. Pasley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Kasman Mr. Allyn W. Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Harold I. Fox Mr. and Mrs. Stanley L. Pauls Ms. Joyce Keegan Dr. Judy A. Shillito Mr. E. Douglas Franklin Dr. Michael M. Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Kiddoo Mr. and Mrs. Sedgwick L. Simons Mr. Gordon E. Gale Mr. and Mrs. Jim Pierson Mrs. Lou Elise White Kimbrell Mr. and Mrs. C. Harwin Smith Gwylene Gaulart and Jean-Marie Maliclet Mr. Samuel R. Putnam, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. E. Peter King Mr. James C. Spears, Jr. Mr. Andrew Geer Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Read Mr. and Mrs. Edward King Mrs. Mandi D. St. John Dr. Rew A. Godow, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Reading II Ms. Julia Krebs and Mr. Roger Hux Dr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Stancyk Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Grady, Jr. Ms. Margaret Ridge Ms. Nancy M. Kreml Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Strasburger Mr. W. Ford Graham Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Rigler Senator and Mrs. John R. Kuhn Mr. and Mrs. Arch W. Templeton Mr. and Mrs. Bob Greaves Ms. Jeanne B. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Lacey III Dr. and Mrs. David J. Tennenbaum Mr. Robert Gurley Mr. and Mrs. Frederich E. Roitzsch Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lacy Louis and Jane Theiling Mr. Barry L. Hainer Mr. Stephen Rothrock and Ms. Karen Mr. Harley F. Laing Mr. and Mrs. William H. Thomas Mr. Todd A. Hancock Nickless Mr. and Mrs. William E. Latture Mr. William V. Turner Mr. Stephen Hanson Capt. and Mrs. E. M. Russell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee Mr. John F. Van Dalen Harbor City Real Estate Advisors, LLC Mr. Edward K. Sanders Mr. and Mrs. John W. Leffler Ms. Joan Vander Arend Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Harter Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Sawyer Mr. William Lesesne Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Watson Ms. Connie Haskell Mr. and Mrs. Harry Scott Mr. and Mrs. William S. Logan Mr. Alex Webel Mr. and Mrs. William B. Hassell Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Scoville, Jr. Lowcountry Companion Mr. and Mrs. Rick Weddle Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Hearn III Mr. James D. Scurry Mr. and Mrs. W. Gordon Lyle, Jr. Oscar and Amy Weinmeister and Family Mr. and Mrs. Marc Hehn Mr. Anton J. Sedalik III Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Lynch Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wells III Mr. and Mrs. Bennett L. Helms Mrs. Gertrude O. Seibels Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mack Mr. David Wethey and Ms. Sarah Woodin Linda and Tom Hennessey Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Senneway Mr. and Mrs. Ward D. MacKenzie Mr. Preston J. Whetstone Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Higgins, Jr. Mr. John M. Shaffer Mr. Mark McConnel and Mr. Darryl Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Alfred White Mr. J. B. Hines III Dr. and Mrs. Harry E. Shealy, Jr. Ms. Jamie Young McCulloch Ms. Kari R. Whitley Mrs. Elizabeth Hoefer Mr. and Mrs. James D. Sine Ms. Eileen Mary McGuffie Margaret T. Williamson Mr. T. Lee Howard Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Skidmore Dr. and Mrs. Thomas W. McKee Ms. Wendy Wilson Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hulse Harriet Smartt Dr. and Mrs. Quincy A. McNeil, Jr. Ms. Laura S. Witham Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Hutson, Jr. Mr. Harry F. Smithson Mr. John W. Meffert Mrs. Amelia K. Wood Ms. Caroline Hyman Mr. Andrew H. Sohor Mr. James B. Miller Ms. Joanna Stewart Jenkins Mr. and Mrs. John M. Spence III Mr. and Mrs. David F. Mims Gerrit J. Jobsis and Vicki L. Bunnell Mr. M. S. Steedley Mr. and Mrs. Boulton D. Mohr SUPPORTER ($50 - $99) Dr. and Mrs. Carl A. Johnson Ms. Mary E. Steimen Mr. Warren Moise Anonymous (1) James J. Jowers, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Stoothoff Dr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Moore, Jr. AgSouth Farm Credit Matt and Cindy Kearney Mr. Charles Story Mr. Gerald G. Muckenfuss Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Allen Susan C. Kilpatrick Mr. and Mrs. Dean E. Swanson Mr. and Mrs. John Muench Mr. and Mrs. Lewis R. Amis Mr. and Mrs. George S. King, Jr. Ms. Tonnia K. Switzer Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Nance Ms. Betheyne J. Arp Mr. and Mrs. Randolph W. Kirkland Mr. and Mrs. Gary D. Tasker Justin Nathanson Dr. and Mrs. Charles J. Austin Ms. Pam Kylstra Mr. Stephen C. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nevin Mr. Joseph Azar Mrs. Anna S. Lacher Mr. Donald W. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Lee F. Nicholson Keller and Bill Barron Dr. Jim Lancaster Mr. Arthur L. Titus Ms. Hadley A. Owen Ms. Sheila L. Beardsley Ms. Beverly G. Lane Dr. Ann Truesdale and Mr. James Truesdale Roy Owen and Sue McClinton Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bergen Dr. and Mrs. Pearon G. Lang Ms. Sally Tuten and Mr. Y. S. Linder Ms. Jenny C. Lawing Ms. Carol Tuynman and Mr. Brian Hedges

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Brien and Beverly Varnado Ms. Harriette S. Gantt Mr. James F. Snyder In Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Mr. and Mrs. Leo F. Vogel Ms. Karen H. Gentry Mr. William W. Struthers Anderson Elise Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Gravil Gretchen and Chris Tate Kurt and Erin Culbert Ms. Mary Walter Mr. James H. Gressette, Jr. Judy Timmons In Memory of Mrs. Peter Aspinal Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Weir Michael and Jacqueline Grubb Mrs. Barbara W. Titus Mrs. Octavia M. Mahon Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Weise Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert S. Guinn Mr. William C. Twitty, P.E. Mr. and Mrs. Hans J. Wiegert Ms. Frances A. Guyton Mr. and Mrs. John L. Vaughan In Memory of Nic Barnett Ms. Mary Theresa Wightman Ms. Leola A. Hanbury Mr. James T. Vaughn Mrs. Vola M. Whitcomb Dr. and Mrs. Hugh T. Wilder Mr. and Mrs. G. Preston Hipp Mr. Brad Walbeck Ms. Caitlin M. Winans Mr. William J. Holling Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Watson In Honor of Penny and Bill Barrett Ms. Ellen H. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Guy R. Hollister Mr. Francis A. Wayne, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Kusko Mr. Shemuel Ben Yisrael Mr. Gregory R. Homza Dr. and Mrs. Steve R. White Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Hook Ms. Marian C. Winner In Memory of Mrs. Betty Brown Cain Mrs. Octavia M. Mahon REGULAR ($30 - $49) Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin A. Hough Mr. and Mrs. Alvin A. Wisco Mr. and Mrs. Charles Agee Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Janiskee Mr. and Mrs. Richard Yost In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Christian Ms. Elizabeth Anderson and Mr. David B. Jennings Mrs. Noel C. Young Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Hutson Mr. Paul Nurnberg Mr. and Mrs. Anthony P. Keinath Mr. Rob Young Mr. Tom Anderson Mrs. Caroline W. Kellett In Memory of Mrs. Virginia W. Christian Mr. Andrew D. Annand Mr. and Mrs. Bucky Knowlton, Jr. STUDENT ($15 - $29) Mrs. John H. Cronly Dr. George Aull Ms. Margaret E. Lee Anonymous (2) Mrs. George M. Grimball Mr. and Mrs. William F. Aull Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lehnhoff Dr. and Mrs. Randy L. Akers Mrs. Robert J. Keller III Mrs. George C. Avent Mr. J. S. Lewis Ms. Kelly L. Arbuckle Mr. Weldon P. Barker Mr. and Mrs. Richards C. Lewis, Jr. Mr. Francis Beach In Honor of Mr. William C. Cleveland Mr. and Mrs. Randal M. Robinson Ms. Evelyn J. Berner Jane B. Locke Mr. and Mrs. David H. Brophy Mr. George S. Betsill Mr. and Mrs. Robert Long Ms. Sarah Cech In Memory of Mr. Richard S. Emmet Mr. and Mrs. John H. Blanchard Mrs. Ellen Lovelady Ms. Helen Charbonneau Mrs. Mary C. Everts Ms. Karen A. Bostian Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Luper Ms. Magdalyn P. Duffie Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Bronk Mr. and Mrs. Matt McIntosh Mr. Brian Falls In Memory of Mrs. Emily H. Fishburne Mr. and Mrs. David K. Brown Mr. Robert B. Miller Mr. Ruston Forrester Mrs. Octavia M. Mahon Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Bunting Cynthia P Mizzell Mr. Gregory D. Guay Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Calhoun Mr. Charles H. Moorefield Beth Hughes In Memory of Dr. Dale Groom Mr. Mario F. Canelon Dr. and Mrs. David S. Moorefield Mr. Billy Ingram Mrs. Marjorie T. Groom Mr. Wayne J. Cannon Dr. and Mrs. P. Clay Motley, Jr. Mr. Arnold B. Jackson Mr. Lincoln Groom Mr. Glenn P. Churchill Ms. Annie Mueller Mr. and Mrs. R. Eugene Jones In Memory of Mrs. Amarinthia Henderson Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Claypool Mr. Gerald W. Musselman Mr. Paul Kadlecik Anonymous (1) Mr. Michael Cline and Ms. Jennifer Mr. and Mrs. Rowland L. Neale II Eliza A. Keith Ms. Jean H. Berry Mathis Mr. and Mrs. Leon S. Niegelsky Ms. Ann W. Kirby Dallas L. Garbee Mrs. Kathleen M. Coats Mr. Edward F. Nolan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Marion A. Knox Staff of LS3P Associates Ltd. Colliers Keenan Ms. Kathleen H. Nolan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Leahy Mrs. Frances M. Cone Ms. Karen Nugent Mr. Roger R. Lebel In Memory of Mr. Robert R. Huffman Mrs. Jeannette M. Cooper Ms. Mary M. O’Connell Dr. Katherine C. Lundy Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Hutson Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Coward Mr. Karl F. Ohlandt Mr. Ronald W. McKinney Mr. Harry J. Crow, Jr. Ms. Jean L. 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23 Conference

Ethical, Cultural, and Civic Dimensions of Global Climate Change November 28th, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm • Francis Marion Hotel Ballroom, Charleston, S.C.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to spend Government at Harvard University. the day in a discussion on the philosophical Wes Jackson is the founding president of analysis of climate change with three national the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas where conservation leaders: he and his staff have conducted research that Bill McKibben began his professional promotes sustainable agriculture. An advocate writing career at The New Yorker. A prolific of sustainable energy, Jackson’s books include author and writer-in-residence at Middlebury Altars of Unhewn Stone: Science and the Earth College, his work includes The End of Nature (1987) and Becoming Native to This Place (1989), an early account of the imminent (1996). dangers of global warming, and most recently Sponsored by The Center for Humans Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and and Nature, the center's President, Strachan the Durable Future (2007). Donnelley, and Dana Beach, Executive Director Robert Corell is Global Change Director of the Coastal Conservation League, will also at the H. John Heinz, III Center for Science, make presentations during the forum. Economics, and the Environment in Washington, Space is limited. To register for this event, D.C. He has served as a Senior Policy Fellow contact William Bailey, Program Manager, at the American Meteorological Society and a Center for Humans and Nature, SC Lowcountry Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Initiative at [email protected] or 803-777-1587. Jane Lareau Jane

The mission of the Coastal Conservation League is to protect the natural environment of the South Carolina coastal plain and to enhance the quality of life of our communities by working with individuals, businesses and government to ensure balanced solutions.

For more information about the Coastal Conservation League, check out our Web site MARK YOUR at www.CoastalConservationLeague.org CALENDARS

Nov. 3rd: Angel Oak Afternoon

Nov. 14th: Beaufort Air Station Environmental Tour

Nov. 28th: Global Climate Change Conference

Call Membership Director Nancy Cregg at 723-8035, ext. 1103, for details. P.O. Box 1765 Charleston, S.C. 29402-1765 S.C. 1765 Charleston, Box P.O.