Charleston Post and Courier September 25, 2016 By David Wren JENKINSVILLE — South Carolina Electric & Gas — the majority owner of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station here — sought last week to shift the focus away from recent rate hikes and construction cost overruns, instead touting lower financing costs and a heftier tax credit […]
Even before the final Clean Power Plan (CPP) was filed by the Obama Administration in October 2015, attorney generals of conservative states were beating the drum of opposition. Twelve of these state AGs, including South Carolina’s Alan Wilson, filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency in August 2014 in response to an initial draft
Clean Power Plan in Court Tuesday. Here’s why opponents will lose. Read More »
The Obama Administration is THISSSSSS close to giving permits for seismic testing off the Atlantic Coast to explore for oil and gas. The future of our vibrant small business tourism economy is threatened. Please help us tell the President “NOOOOO”! Seismic testing is a terribly damaging process of creating one of the loudest sounds in
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Charleston Post and Courier September 19, 2016 Often business interests and environmentalists are at loggerheads: Development versus conservation. But the two have found common ground on a worthy issue affecting the Atlantic Coast. They oppose seismic testing for offshore oil. Of course, Big Oil is an exception. It wants to test for oil deposits in
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Hampton Roads Business Journal September 15, 2016 By Nate Delesline III Hampton Roads representatives are part of a newly formed interstate alliance of business owners who are working together to oppose offshore oil exploration in the Atlantic Ocean. Individual businesses and business organizations from New Jersey to Georgia recently met in South Carolina to develop
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WPDE-TV (Florence/Myrtle Beach SC) September 13, 2016 By Erin MacPherson Horry County, S.C. (WPDE) — After much debate, offshore drilling was banned off the Atlantic Coast. However, seismic testing was not. Seismic testing can lead to offshore drilling. That’s why thousands of businesses came together Monday to stop this testing before it could even start
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The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce launched its “South Carolina Businesses Acting on Rising Seas” (SCBARS) in May of 2013 in partnership with the American Sustainable Business Council and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. The success of our SCBARS project caught the attention of Michael Green. Michael was leading an effort in
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Energy Manager Today September 7, 2016 By Cheryl Kaften South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) announced on September 1 that it had entered into a settlement agreement related to its original petition (Docket No. 2000-366-A) to the South Carolina Public Service Commission (PSC) to increase the cost of constructing its two nuclear plants at the V.C. Summer Station
PRESS RELEASE Date: September 6, 2016 Contact: Frank Knapp Jr., fknapp@scsbc.org, 803-252-5733; Amy Armstrong, South Carolina Environmental Law Project, amy@scelp.org. 843-527-0078 Columbia, SC (September 6, 2016) – Today the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) filed an amicus brief with the S.C. Supreme Court in support of a petition by citizen groups. The
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The State September 6, 2016 S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson has sued the Environmental Protection Agency, saying we shouldn’t have to comply with the federal Clean Power Plan and that doing so would cripple our economy. The legal argument will be decided by the courts. But the economic argument has already been shown to be
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