By Jessica Holdman | Reporter
““It’s painful everywhere. Diesel fuel has been characterized as the workhorse fuel for the world. I mean, literally everything is driven by diesel.” - Rick Todd, CEO of the South Carolina Trucking Association.
A sign at a North Charleston gas station shows the price of diesel fuel at nearly $6.20 per gallon on Friday. (Photo by David Wren/SC Daily Gazette)
By David Wren
The rising cost of diesel fuel is threatening the livelihood of South Carolina’s truckers, driving fears of inflation spikes and forcing operational changes at the Port of Charleston as the state’s economy confronts record pump prices that are expected to continue climbing.
Grizzly bears in the lower 48 states are federally protected as a threatened species. A new memo from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik says that endangered animals may be killed as long as the action was not “intentionally directed at a particular animal or animals.” (Photo courtesy of Terry Tollefsbol/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species
By Alex Brown
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public.
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