March 31, 2025 ACTION ALERT!!! Contact State Senators today to stop your electric rates going up This Tuesday the SC Senate starts debating a bill (H.3309) intended to promote new energy generation to meet the future needs of the state. But lurking inside the legislation is a provision that guarantees higher rates for residential and […]
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WCSC March 28, 2025 Possible impacts of SC energy bill bring optimism for some, concern for others By Tiana Maxwell COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) – The state’s growing population strikes concerns for state leaders about the future of energy, but a bill addressing the issue has an organization concerned for impacts on residential ratepayers. Statehouse bill H.3309, called
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March 25, 2025 Re: Amendments for H.3309 and S.446 to protect ratepayers Senate Judiciary Committee, At your committee meeting on Tuesday, March 25th, you will take up H.3309 and S.446, both addressing energy and utilities. The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce is very concerned that both bills contain provisions that harm all consumers in
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ACTION ALERT!!!!! BIG electric rate hikes annually are coming! Contact these state Senators ASAP! 3-24-25 Two bills will be voted on this Tuesday (March 25th) at 3PM in a SC Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. These utility-friendly bills would: -make electric rate hike decisions more big-business friendly at the expense of all other consumers. -allow
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WCIV-TV WPDE-TV March 23, 2025 ‘A threat to our small business economy;’ SC Small Business Chamber responds to Lutnick by Perrin Moore COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce released a statement Sunday calling on President Trump to “consider firing” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after he made comments about Social Security recipients
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Press Statement March 23, 2025 Trump’s Commerce Secretary is a threat to our small business economy Declares delayed Social Security won’t bother “Americans” Below is a statement by Frank Knapp Jr., President and CEO of the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce, in response to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick declaring this past Thursday that
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SC Daily Gazette March 18, 2025 Commentary: Turning the Public Service Commission into the Utility Service Commission By Frank Knapp Since 2002, the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce has intervened in 12 electric rate cases at the SC Public Service Commission. We have had tremendous success over the years in fighting utility rate hikes
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“Small businesses don’t have a voice in this, but we’ll probably incur the most financial harm,” Knapp told Statehouse Report on March 6. “They just don’t have the ability to absorb a massive tax increase, so they’ll have to increase prices, which most can’t, or cut employee hours and jobs.” Statehouse Report March 7, 2025
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The Well News March 6, 2025 State Efforts to Mirror Trump Anti-DEI Policies Gets Strong Pushback by Dan McCue COLUMBIA, S.C. — A bill before the South Carolina state Legislature that would prevent state and local governments from doing business with entities having diversity, equity and inclusion programs was the subject of strong pushback at
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“Certainly the state of South Carolina can have an anti-DEI policy for the state, but we don’t believe that the state should be coercing private business about how they handle their HR policies,” said Frank Knapp of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce. “As long as HR and private businesses are not violating
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