On July 1, the S.C. Dept. of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) became two distinct entities: the Department of Behavioral and Public Health and the Department of Environmental Services (DES).

COLUMBIA, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) will officially become two different agencies. Under state law, DHEC stated the two new ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Two new agencies are poised to take the place of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) as the agency closes down on July 1. The two new ...

PLANS BY DHEC TO CLEAN UP A CONTAMINATED SITE IN GREENVILLE, AND IT WAS ALL LAID OUT DURING A PUBLIC MEETING LAST NIGHT. OFFICIALS WITH THE SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT SAY THAT THE ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - There may finally be some solutions for an abandoned site in Greenville that’s long been a concern for neighbors. Thursday, Southernside residents packed into ...

Janet Lynam cringes when she thinks about the hazardous waste buried in a landfill near Lake Marion, a sparkling reservoir and cornerstone of South Carolina’s natural resources. During the 1980s and ...

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - The City of Myrtle Beach and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control offered their second class in the Grand Strand educating people on how to ...

ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (WCBD) — The ongoing conflict between the South Carolina Dept. of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and a homeowner on the Isle of Palms has now gone to court. After storms ...

Living near a nuclear plant, coal power plant, paper plant and fiberglass plant, Robert Reese, a longtime Richland County resident, said many in his Lower Richland community worry about potential ...