Let the Public Service Commission Hear Your Voice September 18, 2018 If you are a customer of SCE&G, it is finally your turn to tell the SC Public Service Commission (PSC) how you feel about the utility raising your electric rates by 18% and collecting over $2 BILLION since 2009…
As tropical storm Florence makes its way through South Carolina, attention will soon turn to recovery. The South Carolina office of the Small Business Administration (SBA) has provided information for both small businesses and individuals experiencing property loss due to Florence. That information is below. The first step for everyone…
Post and Courier September 9, 2018 Add another bullet point to the long and growing list of reasons why South Carolina’s coast shouldn’t be open to offshore drilling. An oil spill anywhere near the Gulf Stream would be a monumental mess, potentially affecting hundreds of miles along the Atlantic Coast…
Forbes September 10, 2018 By Priya Shukla Scientists recently discovered an 86-mile-wide deep-sea coral reef off the coast of South Carolina as part of the “Deep Search 2018″ expedition. These expansive mounds have likely existed for hundreds of thousands of years (since the arrival of modern humans), with new corals growing atop the…
Look out deficit hawks (if there are any left in Washington)! Congressional Republicans will be rolling out another tax cut to make the cuts passed last December permanent. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that this would add over $600 BILLION to the national debt in the next decade. This would…
Post and Courier September 6, 2018 (Watch computer simulations) By Tony Bartelme and J. Emory Parker Computer-generated simulations show oil spills off the southeast coast could travel fast in the Gulf Stream or hit beaches depending on spill sites. Oil spills in the Gulf Stream off South Carolina could form…
Newsletter September 4, 2018 Ever since July 31, 2017, when South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) announced that it was abandoning construction of its nuclear plant project in Fairfield County the BIG question has been: How much of the $4.7 billion of the incurred construction costs for the nuclear project…
Any day now California Governor Jerry Brown will sign state legislation banning any “new construction of oil and gas-related infrastructure in state waters.” This doesn’t mean that the Trump Administration’s plans to open the Pacific Ocean to offshore drilling for oil is dead. It just means that there will no…
Newsletter August 27, 2018 The good news is that there is no news on the federal government’s plans to explore and drill for oil in the Atlantic. As we get closer to the midterm elections, it becomes harder to image that any federal agency will take any actions before November.…
What lies 160 miles off the coast of Charleston, is 85 miles long and is ½ mile below the ocean surface? Until a few days ago no one could answer that question because it was just discovered by ocean scientists. Ocean ecologist Erik Cordes described his newly discovered deep sea coral…