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Give me your message for the U.S. Dept. of Energy? I’ll deliver it tomorrow.

By Frank Knapp / Climate / Energy, Small Business Advocacy Blog / November 20, 2013

If there is anything you would like to say to the U.S. Department of Energy, tell me today and I’ll deliver it tomorrow. U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman will be in Charleston tomorrow. He will be at the dedication of Clemson University’s Energy Innovation Center, an 82,000 sq.ft. wind turbine drivetrain testing […]

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When it comes to predicting the impact of EPA rules, we can’t trust the utility companies

By Frank Knapp / Climate / Energy, Small Business Advocacy Blog / September 23, 2013

Seven times either I or the SC Small Business Chamber has intervened in rate hearings for SCE&G and Duke Energy. Seven times the public was told that these power companies had to have every penny of their rate hike proposal or their world would come to an end. Seven times their rate increases have been

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Pollution Economics

By Frank Knapp / Climate / Energy, Small Business Advocacy Blog / August 11, 2013

The New York TimesAugust 10, 2013 By DIRK FORRISTER and PAUL BLEDSOE WITH more than a million people in China dying prematurely each year from breathing its dirty air, and with warming temperatures portending rising sea levels and disruptions to food production, the centrally planned Communist country is experimenting with a capitalist approach to address

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