South Carolina Wants To Make It Harder To Stop Polluters

For the past 65 years, if someone — or some company — was illegally polluting in South Carolina, you could sue. The law was put on the books so that if South Carolina’s enforcement agencies didn’t have the time, money, or political backing to go after a polluter, the average citizen could step in.

Now, with only a month left in its 2015-2016 session, the South Carolina legislature has picked up a bill that would do away with this ability....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/06/3775596/sc-environmental-bill-rights-removed/