2022 Waccamaw Conference Clean Water Act: PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE

Join us at the Horry County Museum or virtually Friday, March 25 at 1 p.m. for our keynote presentation, "CWA: Past, Present, & Future," from Amy Armstrong, executive director of the South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP). We will host the presentation at the Horry County Museum’s auditorium as well as broadcast it live virtually.

In this session, Armstrong will talk about how the Clean Water Act became a crucial legal tool to address water pollution and destruction across the country, including the Waccamaw River. However, 50 years after the inception of the Clean Water Act, our lakes, rivers and wetlands remain under threat due to legislative rollbacks, unrelenting development interests and climate change. Learn how you can take action to protect your waters and your community.

The SCELP is a nonprofit environmental law organization. Armstrong joined SCELP in September 2002, after receiving a competitive two-year fellowship from Equal Justice Works, formerly the National Association of Public Interest Law. Once her fellowship ended, she become a staff attorney at SCELP, a position she held for over eight years until the untimely death of SCELP’s founder, Jimmy Chandler.

Armstrong graduated from University of South Carolina in May, 2002, with a Juris Doctor and Master’s in Earth and Environmental Resource Management. She is a Liberty Fellow and also served as a municipal court judge for the City of Georgetown. She received her Bachelor of science in Biology from the University of Michigan in 1992. Before attending law school, she worked with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, managing a population of federally endangered Red-cockaded Woodpeckers.

We will also record the presentation and post to our YouTube page following the event. More information about the full conference can be found at 2022 Waccamaw Conference.