As the summer heats up, so is the controversy over SCE&G’s request to add $852 million to the cost of constructing two nuclear plants in Fairfield County. According to The State if the Public Service Commission (PSC) approves this request in October, “the project’s new total cost would be $14 billion, about 43 percent higher […]
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Lexington County Chronicle June 9, 2016 By Jerry Bellune S.C. Electric & Gas’ latest request sounds like it is controlling rising costs. But its critics say that’s not true, that SCE&G needlessly complicates its request to make it difficult for customers to grasp and the Public Service Commission to understand or reject. SCE&G’s request for
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Lexington County Chronicle June 2, 2016 By Jerry Bellune S.C. Electric & Gas’ wants state regulators to let it cut a new nuclear deal. But a business critic says the company is using “smoke and mirrors” in asking the state to let it spend more customers’ money. With the nuclear plants’ costs reaching $880 million
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GreenBiz May 27, 2016 By Zach Bernstein As we look ahead to the November election, we may be concerned that a number of policy debates in Washington and the states could have outsized impacts on the business community. The good news is, the business voice on sustainability issues could help move these contentious debates forward.
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Think Progress May 24, 2016 by Samantha Page To plan, or not to plan? That’s not the question for West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who is already fighting the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon rule in court and has now submitted a letter to the agency, warning it not to help other states plan how
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Yesterday the West Virginia Attorney General told the National Press Club that Environmental Protection Agency regulations, like the Clean Power Plan, have hurt coal industry jobs. Patrick Morrisey, who is leading a group of state attorneys general in a legal challenge to the CPP, is reported by The Hll to have said that he was
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Morning Consult May 11, 2016 By Frank Knapp South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R), free from the partisan restraints of campaigning, has returned to his maverick ways in the Senate in pushing for clean energy solutions to climate change. Graham’s effort last month to include a bipartisan “sense of Congress” amendment to the Energy and Water
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“You can keep talking to the climate deniers, if you can find them. But I think most people, including in the states that are suing us on the Clean Power Plan, want climate action, and they want us to regulate the fossil industry for carbon pollution.” — EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy addressing Climate Action 2016
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The Hill April 25, 2016 By Tim Devaney To some, the Atlantic Coast conjures visions of New England lighthouses, sunrises in the Chesapeake Bay and tourists flocking to the white sands of Myrtle Beach. To others, it is an untapped resource that could provide millions of Americans with wind energy and oil in subsequent generations.
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Myrtle Beach Sun News April 20, 2016 By Frank Knapp Jr. If the Obama administration was recently convinced to change course and not allow drilling for oil and gas off the Mid-Atlantic coast, why is it moving ahead with giving permits for destructive seismic testing for oil deposits in the same area? That’s the question
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