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Lower Richland County, South Carolina needs clean energy investments and green jobs to address pollution and overdevelopment. The Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment Jobs Act offer opportunities for change.

Sacrifice zones are populated areas that are exposed to especially high pollution levels and other environmental and health hazards.

Civil War weapons, including an unexploded ordnance, were found during a cleanup project in a South Carolina river.

Cannonballs, a sword blade and a wagon wheel are among the artifacts found in the Congaree River.

Cannonballs, a sword blade and a wagon wheel are among the artifacts found in the Congaree River.

Cannonballs, a sword blade and a wagon wheel are among the artifacts found in the Congaree River.

Cannonballs, a sword blade and a wagon wheel are among the artifacts found in the Congaree River.

"Thirteen years after a kayaker reported stepping into a stinging patch of muck in the Congaree River, contractors have cleaned up the toxic mess that covered a stretch of the river bottom below the Gervais Street bridge in Columbia, South Carolina."

Dominion Energy workers have finished cleaning up 100-year-old toxic tar from the Congaree River. The 13-year cleanup also led to the discovery of thousands of historical artifacts, including a Confederate

Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup of a South Carolina river where Union troops dumped Confederate military equipment to deliver a demoralizing blow for rebel forces in the birthplace of the secessionist movement.