Call your U.S. Representative TODAY to urge a vote “no” on the Interior-EPA appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2019 (H.R. 6147). House leadership blocked all our champions’ amendments to block new offshore drilling—not even giving them a chance for a vote. This harmful bill slashes funding for important programs, including…
Numerous amendments to the Department of Interior’s budget that would block funding for offshore oil exploration and drilling in the Atlantic could have received a House vote this week. Instead, yesterday Republican leadership blocked those amendments from even being considered by the whole House. South Carolina Congressmen Mark Sanford, Tom…
Support Amendments to Block Funding for Oil Exploration and Drilling in Atlantic South Carolina Congressmen Mark Sanford and Jim Rice are two of several bipartisan co-sponsors of amendments in the U.S. House that would not allow federal funding in 2019 for oil exploration and drilling in the Atlantic and Straits…
Today the SC Public Service Commission unanimously and without debate voted to comply with the directive of the SC Legislature. The PSC approved a 15% electric rate decrease for SCE&G customers retroactive to April 1st of this year. Before you get too excited, this past Friday SCE&G filed suit in a…
As you might remember the President said that one of the benefits of the tax reform bill he signed last December would be to allow the filing of taxes on a postcard. He didn’t say what the size of the postcard would be but he did promise that it would…
The Post and Courier By Andrew Brown and Thad Moore COLUMBIA — After months of delays, South Carolina lawmakers agreed on a plan Wednesday that would temporarily slash S.C. Electric & Gas customers’ power bills, ending a drawn-out debate over charges for unfinished nuclear reactors and likely throwing the state into…
SCE&G electric rates that have risen 18% since 2009 to pay for the construction financing costs of the now abandoned nuclear plants in Fairfield County. Ratepayers have been forced to pay about $2 billion in extra charges on their electric bills because of this failed project. From the very beginning…
Six months ago Congress passed a major tax bill that President Trump eagerly signed with a promise that the average American family would get a $4000 raise due to their taxes being cut and raises or bonuses from their employers. Employers were supposed to pass on much of their tax…
Newsletter June 21, 2018 ACTION ALERT!!! Legislature Meets Next Week on SCE&G Rates and Regulatory Reform The SCE&G/Santee Cooper nuclear plants debacle that has dominated the news and legislature this year has resulted in this….NOTHING! We have one last chance to tell our legislators to quit talking and making excuses…
Entrepreneur June 20, 2018 The IRS charges 5 percent interest on underpayments, so miscalculating a quarterly payment could have serious ramifications. But what if you don’t know what that quarterly payment should be? By Anne Zimmerman, Guest Writer, Founder and Owner, Zimmerman & Co. CPAs I’ve been a small business…