Category Archives: United States

Rising to the sea’s challenge

Orrin Pilkey’s op-ed article, Rising to the sea’s challenge, was featured on newsobserver.com on March 1, 2011. To its everlasting credit, the state Division of Coastal Management (DCM) is trying to institute new development policies along our shoreline that recognize sea level rise. It is a splendid display of bureaucratic courage and foresight. The basic […]
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Collaboration recognized by CoastalCare.org

The following article about the ongoing collaboration of Mary Edna Fraser and Orrin Pilkey appeared on CoastalCare.org.  Their forum is on a mission to raise awareness of the many unsustainable practices that are harming the world’s beaches and coasts, advocate for sensible science-based policies and regulations that will protect and preserve coastlines and beaches around […]
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SC Supreme Court hears final arguments on Captain Sam’s Spit, Kiawah Island

Yesterday, Tuesday, January 18, 2011, the South Carolina Supreme Court heard the final pleas over the construction of a half-mile long bulkhead along the Kiawah River intended to stabilize the dynamic Captain Sam’s Spit on Kiawah Island. Lawyers Amy Armstrong of the South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP) and Davis Whitfield-Cargile of the state’s Ocean […]
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