South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control

We promote and protect the health of the public and the environment.

• Accountability Report (pdf)
• Best Management Practices (pdf)
• Board
• Commissioner
• Fees & Fines Collected
• Healthy People Living in Healthy Communities (pdf)
• Organization Chart (pdf)
• Service Pledge
• Service Pledge (Spanish)
• Strategic Plan (pdf)

C. Earl Hunter, Agency Commissioner

• B.S., Marine Biology, University of South Carolina, 1979.
• M.A. in Business Administration, Webster University, 1985.
• 23 years experience with the Department .
• Started his DHEC Career as a water quality inspector with the Waccamaw Environmental Quality Control District in 1980.
• Served as a environmental quality manager with the Facilities Compliance Section of the Bureau of Water in 1984.
• In 1988 was named Manager of the Facilities Compliance Section in the Bureau’s of Water’s Division of Water Quality Assessment and Enforcement.
• In 1991 was named Director, Division of Water Quality Assessment and Enforcement
• In 1993, named Assistant to the Commissioner. Served as DHEC’s legislative liaison and as a member of the agency’s Executive Management Team.
• Appointed Commissioner on August 1, 2001