The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied environmental organizations’ motion for an injunction pending their appeal of a district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction to block a developer from proceeding with a multi-use project in an area in the City of Charleston and Berkeley County where plaintiffs alleged coastal flooding was a major problem. The plaintiffs argued that the district court failed to consider risks from flooding and sea level rise posed by the development’s placement of “thousands of new homes in a low-lying, flood-prone area.”

Challenge to the issuance of a Clean Water Act permit authorizing the filling of wetlands for construction of a mixed-use residential and commercial development in South Carolina.

South Carolina Coastal Conservation League v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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Fourth Circuit Declined to Enjoin Development in “Flood-Prone” Area of Charleston

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Fourth Circuit Declined to Enjoin Development in “Flood-Prone” Area of Charleston

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