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South Carolina's Supreme Court again has ruled on the side of environmentalists in an enduring fight over the future of Kiawah Island's imperiled Capt. Sam's Spit, on which developers have long sought to build oceanfront houses. In an opinion published Tuesday, the Supreme Court reversed an earlier ruling by the state's Administrative Law Court which tentatively cleared the way for construction of a 2,380-foot metal wallalong the Kiawah River on.
DeSmog
Mar 9, 2021 @ 11:55
You won’t find an ethane cracker or industrial plastics manufacturing equipment on tiny Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. The tiny 2.5 mile-long barrier island along the Atlantic coast near Charleston claimed a spot in history for its role in the Revolutionary War, though it’s perhaps better known among vacationers and tourists in recent years for its sandy beachfronts and blue waters.
But, in July 2019, Charleston environmental lawyer Andrew Wunderley arrived on the beach after getting a tip from a dog walker who’d noticed something strange in the sands along Sullivan’s Island. Wunderley arrived to discover an extraordinary number of tiny white bits, so dense and widespread on the beach and in the surf that he later compared them to sleet. The bits were newly manufactured pieces of plastic resin, known as nurdles, which pose hazards to wildlife and contaminate the environment as they breakdown into microplastics.