Climate / Energy

The Greenville News January 10, 2017 By Frank Knapp Jr., Guest Columnist This past Friday’s announcement by the Obama Administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that it was denying all seismic testing permits for oil exploration off the Atlantic Coast brought cheers from the business community, local governments, environmental organizations and citizen groups. The permit […]

Charleston Post and Courier January 7, 2017 By Emma Dumain WASHINGTON — South Carolina environmentalists were disappointed last month when President Barack Obama excluded the state’s coastline from protection against offshore drilling. These same activists are now cheering the Obama administration’s denial Friday of six permits to perform seismic airgun testing, all of which would have

Charleston Post and Courier, December 25, 2016 The Sumter Item, December 29, 2016 Greenville News, December 30, 2016 By Frank Knapp Jr. This past week President Barack Obama had the opportunity to permanently protect our vibrant tourism, recreation and commercial fishing economies of the entire Atlantic Coast from offshore oil drilling. Disappointingly, he used his

Charleston Post and Courier December 23, 2016 Despite a major victory in November, the fight against drilling for oil off South Carolina’s coast isn’t over yet. President Barack Obama used his executive power Tuesday to invoke a rarely used 1953 law to ban oil exploration indefinitely from parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, but

CBS News Time The Denver Post US News & World Report December 20, 2016 Kevin Freking / AP HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing. The move

Beaufort Gazette December 20, 2016 By Stephen Fastenau President Barack Obama permanently protected part of the Atlantic Ocean from offshore drilling on Tuesday, but the limited scope of the ban miffed longtime drilling opponents in South Carolina. Obama withdrew about 3.8 million acres of the Atlantic from the possibility of drilling — from offshore of

The Virginia-Pilot December 20, 2016 By Dave Mayfield President Barack Obama on Tuesday put the weight of his waning administration behind banning oil and gas drilling off parts of the East Coast, including Virginia. The question immediately became: What will Donald Trump do? Industry groups are counting on him to reverse Obama’s course soon after