Friends of Coastal South joins South Carolina Environmental Law Center to challenge DES permitting of Cape Romain development

In the creative nonfiction book “The Perfect Storm,” several weather phenomena combined to form an intense and fatal mix of wind and waves over the northern Atlantic Ocean.

The current real-life drama slowly unfolding next to the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge doesn’t hold that kind of human tragedy, but governmental failures at multiple levels threaten to coalesce and enable construction of 208 single-family homes on the White Tract, a large parcel that could either become part of the refuge or, if developed, pollute it.