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.…
New Strategic Alliance Will Significantly Boost Efforts to Remake & Revitalize the American Economy
(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…
Opinion: Here’s what President Trump must do to show Floridians he wants to protect coasts
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…
Dominion, Duke abandon Atlantic Coast Pipeline plans
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…
Dominion Energy abandons $8 billion gas pipeline
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…
Feds ordered to produce additional seismic documents
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…
Deal struck to temporarily cut SCE&G nuclear rates nearly 15 percent
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…
Editorial: Moderation needed in EPA cuts
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…
Toxic waste sites threaten Beaufort County
Hilton Head Island Packet October 10, 2017 By Frank Knapp Jr. Special to The Island Packet Hurricane Harvey’s extensive flooding of the Houston area resulted in massive physical damage that was easily visible. However, it is the less visible damage that threatens lives after the flood waters recede. The Houston…
Hurricanes and toxic waste, a recipe for disaster
As South Carolina waits to find out if Hurricane Irma will impact the state, Hurricane Harvey has shown us there is more than wind and water damage to worry about — toxic waste. When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designates a toxic waste site as a Superfund site, it means it is…