Climate / Energy

Why Are Some Big Utilities Embracing Small-Scale Solar Power?

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InsideClimate NewsSeptember 12, 2013 By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News A handful of U.S. utilities have discovered they can save money by encouraging small rooftop solar projects—the same projects utility industry leaders have insisted were too expensive and unreliable to be practical. The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) in New York, for instance, is paying developers […]

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Another regulatory victory for the SC Small Business Chamber

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The South Carolina Public Service Commission has approved the settlement reached between the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Duke Energy, SC Office of Regulatory Staff and other intervenors in Duke’s recent rate hike request. This is another big victory for the work of the SC Small Business Chamber. Our track record of successfully

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“What I’m looking for is a climate-change denier with a lot of money.”

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National Geographic MagazineSeptember 2013 Rising Seas As the planet warms, the sea rises. Coastlines flood. What will we protect? What will we abandon? How will we face the danger of rising seas? By Tim Folger (Excerpts) In May the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million, the highest since three

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Is climate change humanity’s greatest-ever risk management failure?

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TheGuardian.comAugust 23, 2013 By Dana Nuccitelli  Humans are very good at managing risks, except when it comes to the greatest risk we’ve faced – climate change Humans are generally very risk-averse. We buy insurance to protect our investments in homes and cars. For those of us who don’t have universal health care, most purchase health insurance.

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The Tom Coburn woolly mammoth project

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A soon to be released United Nations report will say that scientists have 95% certainty that humans are the principle driver of our warming planet.  Scientists aren’t arguing about whether the Earth’s atmosphere is warming.  The melting glaciers and thermometers don’t lie.  But yet all the physical signs of climate change don’t point to increases

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You’re invited to hear Bill McKibben in Charleston

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The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce is pleased to co-sponsor a free lecture by Bill McKibben in Charleston on October 16th at 6PM.   McKibben is the founder of 350.org and has been called by Time Magazine “the planet’s best green journalist”.  The title of the lecture is “The Climate Heats Up” and it

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Found—the thousands of new jobs promised from Keystone XL pipeline

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How many new jobs might be created if the Keystone XL pipeline is built from Canada to the Gulf Coast for the purpose of carrying the dirtiest, carbon-saturated oil in the world for refining into fuel? This has been a perplexing question.  TransCanada, the would-be builder of the approximately 2000 mile long pipeline, has claimed

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S.C. laws hinder clean energy investment

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Columbia Regional Business ReportsAugust 6, 2013 The state has missed out on millions from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Meanwhile, South Carolina’s laws also are blocking projects on Defense Department sites. By Mike Fitts colanews@scbiznews.comPublished Aug. 5, 2013 South Carolina’s laws are holding back growth in promising clean energy fields while other Southeast states

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