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Nov. 10, 2021
Break up DHEC or leave it be? SC task force studying agency’s future releases suggestions
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Columbia partner and environmental attorney Bernie Hawkins has been facilitating a task force to examine the provision of health and environmental services in South Carolina. After five months of meetings, the group, Strengthen the Health and Promote the Environment of South Carolina, or SHaPE SC, said it was unable to answer the largest question: whether the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control and other state agencies with health and environmental missions should be realigned.
While some task force members strongly supported realignment, others vehemently opposed it, Hawkins said. “What we decided early on was that we were looking for consensus across all three subcommittees, and we determined that we simply were not going to get a consensus among the subcommittees on the question of alignment,” he said.
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