Thanks to all who contacted Sen. Graham about today’s vote in the Senate to bribe South Carolina and other Atlantic Coast states to get their support for offshore drilling. While Senator Graham did vote to move S.3110 forward, the bill failed to get the 60 votes it needed to stay alive. Only 51 Senators voted […]
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South Carolina local coastal governments, businesses and citizens overwhelmingly oppose drilling off the Atlantic Coast for oil. So the oil companies and their supporters in Congress want to bribe states like South Carolina to agree to allow offshore drilling by giving them a small cut of revenues from any future oil and gas development. Call
Over 12,000 businesses seek protection for local coastal economies Washington, DC—A delegation from the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) meet today with Administration officials who will decide the future of oil and gas exploration that will effect local economies along the Atlantic seaboard. Over 12,000 businesses and 400,000 commercial fishing families are
Southeast Energy News November 11, 2016 BY Elizabeth Ouzts In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, coastal advocates and businesses are wasting no time in their quest for a permanent ban on offshore drilling along the Eastern Seaboard. Members of a newly formed alliance representing more than 12,000 businesses along the Atlantic Coast will travel to the
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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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I met Skip Stiles (featured in the below story) at a 2014 conference in Charlotte. Skip heads up Wetlands Watch in Virginia. He and I were making presentations on sea level rise. Skip told me that his efforts in Norfolk to get the business community to start planning for rising seas wasn’t getting much traction.
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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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E&E News April 13, 2016 Gulf emerges over plight of small businesses at EPW panel hearing Sean Reilly, E&E reporter Are U.S. EPA regulations a burden or boon to small businesses? A panel of witnesses gave starkly contrasting answers to that question at a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee hearing yesterday, with one suggesting
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Charleston Post and Courier January 13, 2016 Every coastal municipality in South Carolina has said “No.” So have Congressmen Mark Sanford, Jim Clyburn and Tom Rice, who represent all of the coastal districts in South Carolina. And so has Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster. Now more than 400 business leaders throughout South Carolina have joined the
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Yesterday was an historic day for achieving a sustainable planet for the environment, people and world economies including South Carolina’s. 195 nations came together over 13 days in a Paris suburb to sign a climate accord to reduce carbon emissions that are driving accelerated climate change with the goal of fending off the most dire
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