The Sierra Club, the South Carolina Wildlife Federation and other environmental bodies have filed a petition for the state board of the Department of Environmental Health and Control to cancel the certifications for the Long Savannah community development granted under the federal Clean Water Act by agency staff.
People relocating from other states have ballooned South Carolinaâs population, and towns and cities popular with newcomers have scrambled to meet the costly demands that inevitably follow rapid growth.
Traffic congestion, school crowding, loss of green spaces, increases in stormwater flooding, rising rents and home prices, and a broad need for more public services are all predictable results of this growth. Towns, cities and school districts have been seeking and testing solutions, with mixed results.
Often, local governments that once encouraged growth and benefited from its arrival have seemed unprepared for the day when it would become too much, too fast.Â
we ll get you back up to boston, but first we want to go to cape canaveral, florida, where space shuttle discovery is set to launch in about 1:30. one of only four left before nasa retires the fleet. nbc s jay is at cape canaveral. we re coming up on the end of an era, aren t we? reporter: sure are. just four to go and this is going to be a beautiful launch this morning. i want to tell everybody along the eastern sea board f you look this way, we have a big clear high, you can see the shuttle discovery going into orbit. it will go up along savannah, charleston, up into north carolina. you can even see it that far up. we re one minute away from launching. we had something extraordinary that happened here just about 15 minutes ago. the space station itself came over the cape. it s moving through space at 17,500 miles an hour. a little more than 200 miles up. and it passed over the launch