Residents, Conservationists Warn of Health, Cost Risks from Proposed Kennedy's Gas Plant

Jan 14, 2025

Residents and conservation groups told a Senate subcommittee that the proposed Kennedy's combined-cycle gas plant could concentrate environmental and financial risks in an already burdened community and that permitting and cost details remain unclear.

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Residents, conservation advocates and public-interest groups pressed the Senate Energy Subcommittee to scrutinize plans for a large combined-cycle gas plant near Kennedy's on the Edisto River, saying the project could create concentrated environmental and cost risks for a small, historically marginalized community.

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