The recent 7-day SC Public Service Commission hearing on Dominion Energy’s proposed new solar net metering tariff ended March 3rd. In Act 62 the SC legislature instructed the PSC to develop a new tariff by May 31st. All the daily sessions are online. SC Small Business Chamber president Frank Knapp intervened as an individual in […]
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The Berkeley Independent January 29, 2021 By Frank Knapp Jr. South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce The South Carolina House of Representatives has passed House Bill 3194, re-establishing a process for a potential sale of Santee Cooper while also outlining significant reforms to the state-owned utility. The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce
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Blog by Frank Knapp, Jr., President & CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce January 23, 2021 President Joe Biden has taken quick action on climate change including his commitment to ban all new oil drilling on public lands and waters on his first day in office. The South Carolina Small Business
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(Frank Knapp, President/CEO of the SC Small Business Chamber, serves on the Board for ASBC) American Sustainable Business Council Social Venture Circle FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chrystie Heimert 802.338.2556 cheimert@asbcouncil.org WASHINGTON, DC, September 16, 2020—The American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), the nation’s foremost business advocate for an environmentally safe and equitable economy announced today a
Florida Today September 11, 2020 Frank Knapp Jr., Guest columnist This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order for a 10-year moratorium on offshore oil exploration and drilling along all of Florida’s coasts and those of Georgia and South Carolina, starting in July 2022. Mr. Trump has spent nearly four years as president insisting
USA Today July 6, 2020 By Steve Kiggins The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been scrapped after years of legal challenges and construction delays. The project’s developers, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy, announced the pipeline’s cancellation in a joint statement on Sunday, citing “increasing legal uncertainty” — less than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court approved
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Lexington County Chronicle July 6, 2020 Project said to be major reason Dominion was willing to buy SCANA, SCE&G By Jerry Bellune Dominion Energy and Duke Energy have canceled their costly, long-delayed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The pipeline to bring natural gas from West Virginia to the NC-SC coast was a major reason Dominion was believed to be willing
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Charleston Regional Business Journal January 8, 2020 Feds ordered to produce additional seismic documents Staff Report A U.S. district judge has ordered the federal government to produce all documents related to its decision to allow seismic blasting tests off the coast of South Carolina, a legal victory for municipalities and environmental groups who are suing
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The Post and Courier By Andrew Brown and Thad Moore COLUMBIA — After months of delays, South Carolina lawmakers agreed on a plan Wednesday that would temporarily slash S.C. Electric & Gas customers’ power bills, ending a drawn-out debate over charges for unfinished nuclear reactors and likely throwing the state into a legal battle with a
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Orangeburg Times and Democrat November 15, 2017 Moderation is usually best. But it appears to be lost in modern-day Washington. The fight is always over extreme proposals. A case in point: The Trump administration has proposed cutting the Environmental Protection Agency budget by 31 percent, largely aiming at climate programs that grew under President Barack
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