Washington Examiner by Josh Siegel April 11, 2018 12:24 PM Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke assured the House Appropriations Committee Wednesday that he plans to scale back his plan to expand offshore leasing in nearly all federal waters, after massive local and state opposition. “States matter, local voices matter, you…
Big news from South Carolina. The City of Greenville sits 213 miles from Charleston and 248 miles from Myrtle Beach. But that doesn’t mean that its city council doesn’t care about the economic and environmental health of the state’s coast. Last night the Greenville City Council unanimously passed a resolution…
Date: April 9, 2018 From: South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject: Info on munitions and radioactive waste dump sites in the Atlantic sought Contact: Frank Knapp, President/CEO, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org James Barton, 757-572-7750 Columbia, SC—Today a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was filed with the U.S.…
The State April 9, 2018 Columbia, SC U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan claims that drilling for oil is part of a creator’s grand design. I believe there is a creator and we are called to be good stewards of God’s creation. Searching for and burning fossil fuel damages God’s good creation.…
Associated Press April 6, 2018 Interior secretary: ‘Opposition’ to offshore drill plan By WAYNE PARRY PLAINSBORO, N.J. (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Friday acknowledged there is “a lot of opposition” to President Donald Trump’s plan to open most of the nation’s coastline to oil and gas drilling. Speaking…
There has been a lot of media coverage about the impact the new tax law is having on big corporations and Wall Street. But what does it mean for small business owners like you? Join me in a webinar sponsored by Businesses for Responsible Tax Reform, a national organization that…
PRESS RELEASE Date: April 5, 2018 From: South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject: Opposition to seismic testing permits revs up its legal engines Contact: See below Columbia, SC—If there is to be exploration for oil in the Atlantic using the highly destructive seismic airgun blasting process, it will…
Charleston Post and Courier April 3, 2018 Members of South Carolina’s congressional delegation, especially coastal Reps. Mark Sanford and Tom Rice, should oppose legislation that would weaken protections for marine mammals and ease the process for permitting for seismic surveys. Two oil-industry friendly bills by Louisiana lawmakers haven’t garnered as…
Post and Courier reporters Andrew Brown and Thad Moore have what is possibly the scoop of this whole SCE&G nuclear plant debacle. They have even provided us the audio of a voicemail from early 2016 that alerts Santee Cooper to potential criminal mismanagement of the nuclear construction project by SCE&G…
March 28, 2018 Businesses for Responsible Tax Reform today launched a series of webinars for small business owners in Arizona, California, Nevada and Maine to explain how the new tax law impacts them. The series comes after polling shows small business owners in those states doubt the tax law…