MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — Gov. Henry McMaster and state officials will hold a press conference on Wednesday aboard the USS Yorktown to provide an update on the ship’s ongoing remediation project.
The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Nov. 12 aboard the historic aircraft carrier at Patriots Point.
This press conference comes nearly nine months after McMaster and the South Carolina Office of Resilience announced the remediation project had entered its final phase. The goal was to remove thousands of gallons of toxic pollutants from the Yoorktown…