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SCELP Team
Ben Cunningham
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Senior Managing Attorney
Started working at SCELP in May of 2019
Graduated from the University of Georgia and earned his J.D. from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law
Previously worked in private practice in both Georgia and South Carolina
His passion for preserving South Carolina’s natural resources for future generations inspired him to work for SCELP
Loves to be outdoors, drawing and painting, reading, playing and watching basketball
Enjoys spending time with his family, including his wife, Janna, and their son, Felix
Cases
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Water and Wetlands
Ten Mile Community
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2023
The Ten Mile community, a historic African American settlement community, is located in Charleston County. We are working with the Ten Mile Neighborhood Association to fight over-development that threatens environmental and cultural resources.
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Water and Wetlands
Rural Drinking Water
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2021
Access to safe, affordable and reliable drinking water is a basic human right, indispensable to sustaining healthy livelihoods and maintaining people’s dignity. It is also an increasingly urgent environmental protection and justice issue in South Carolina.
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Water and Wetlands
Gadsden Creek
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2021
On behalf of Friends of Gadsden Creek, we are challenging DHEC’s authorization to fill and destroy one of the last tidal creeks on the Charleston peninsula for a mixed-use development.
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Coastal Management
Harbor Island Beached Houses
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2018
As sea levels continue to rise, and our beaches continue to erode, it was only a matter of time before we would face the dilemma of beachfront houses becoming permanently stranded on the active beach, or "beached" houses.
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