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Press Release: Atlantic Coast Business Leaders Meet with Obama Administration on Opposition to Seismic Testing for Offshore Oil and Gas

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 […]

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As Trump administration looms, advocates seek Atlantic drilling ban

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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Thousands of businesses come together to prevent seismic testing for offshore drilling

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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It’s not a hundred years off – it’s now

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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Public wants regulation of the fossil fuel industry for carbon pollution

“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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Gulf emerges over plight of small businesses at EPW panel hearing

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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Editorial: Rising voices against drilling

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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Historic climate accord reached—there is “no Plan B”

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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EDITORIAL: Rice joins coastal protection chorus

Charleston Post and Courier November 15, 2015 Coastal South Carolina is a diverse region representing a broad range of people, incomes and lifestyles from Hilton Head to North Myrtle Beach. But there’s one sentiment that residents share — their love of the coast, with its beaches, its marshes, rivers and creeks. They don’t want to

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South Carolina GOP Congressmen oppose offshore drilling

Charleston Post and Courier November 15, 2015 Congressman Mark Sanford “Some of the loudest voices for drilling have been from representatives or others who live a long way from the area,” he said. “It’s neat to have an opinion 200 miles from the coast about something that’s going to happen on the coast.” “The local

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