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ASBC, Indigenous and Community-based Business Leaders See True Conservation & Sustainable Economic Potential in Dept. of Interior Report; Businesses for Conservation and Climate Action Launched and Poised to Engage

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PRESS RELEASE Washington, DC — May 6, 2021 – Today the Department of the Interior (DOI) issued its highly anticipated report called for by President Biden’s executive order on combating the climate crisis at home and abroad. The report outlines the stakeholder engagement approaches and principles that are to be used by the administration in […]

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SC Residential Solar Energy Industry Saved by Public Service Commission

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Press Statement April 28, 2021 Contact: Frank Knapp 803-600-6874 SC Residential Solar Energy Industry Saved by Public Service Commission Below is a statement by Frank Knapp, Jr., President & CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce regarding the SC Public Service Commission ruling today on Dominion Energy’s proposed tariff on roof-top solar

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Door cracked open for a business approach to Santee Cooper’s future

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Blog by Frank Knapp, President/CEO South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce April 19, 2021 Logic might yet prevail in the SC Senate regarding the future of Santee Cooper, the state-owned utility that provides electricity to about 2 million South Carolinians either directly or through electric cooperatives. Santee Cooper ran up a $4 billion construction

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Opinion: Selling Santee Cooper is transformational change S.C. deserves

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Sumter Daily Item April 13, 2021 By James Felder, Gullah Geechee Leadership Institute Fifty years ago, Isaac Samuel Leevy Johnson, Herbert Fielding and I stepped into the state capitol to take our places as South Carolina’s first Black members of the General Assembly. It was a milestone on a road of transformational change. And, with

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Commentary: South Carolina’s best chance to fix Santee Cooper is by selling it

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Post and Courier April 7, 2021 By Dana Beach If ever there were a question that reveals the wide array of ideological perspectives in South Carolina, it’s whether the state should sell its electric power company, the S.C. Public Service Authority. Santee Cooper is a veritable Rorschach test of economic and political beliefs. For observers

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Will SC Senate do its fiduciary obligation?

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Blog by Frank Knapp, President and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce April 6, 2021 The South Carolina legislature’s effort to resolve the future of Santee Cooper continues to move at a glacial pace, years after the V.C. Summer nuclear fiasco that will cost Santee Cooper and co-op customers more than

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Opinion: It’s time for SC to take a ‘business approach’ to Santee Cooper

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The Greenville News March 21, 2021 By Jim DeMint, Special to the Greenville news To many of my fellow South Carolinians, I am known for my years as an elected official, first in the US House of Representatives, then the US Senate. But before my tenure in Washington—for more than 20 years—I was the full-time CEO of a small

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Power company’s solar plan could hurt small organic farm. Columbia farmer worried.

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The State March 21, 2021 By Sammy Fretwell Since opening 12 years ago at an old industrial site in Columbia, the City Roots organic farm has developed a loyal following among people who want to buy locally grown produce or attend community dinners hosted by the small operation’s owners. Today, with the farm’s popularity continuing

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Lawmaker: Why does Dominion oppose experts

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Lexington County Chronicle March 18, 2021 Utility would silence solar industry at March 23 PSC hearing By Jerry Bellune Dominion Energy wants to stop solar power experts from testifying at a state regulatory hearing. But that effort to limit comments didn’t go over well with Rep. Micah Caskey of West Columbia. “I don’t understand the

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