The State St. Augustine Record January 18, 2019 By Stuart Leavenworth WASHINGTON A federal judge in South Carolina on Friday blocked the Trump administration from processing seismic testing permits for offshore oil drilling, a setback for the administration’s efforts to assist energy companies during the partial government shutdown. U.S. District…
SC leaders learn how utility deregulation works in other states
South Carolina Radio Network January 17, 2019 By Renee Sexton A group of utility leaders, state agency representatives and political leaders learned Wednesday how energy deregulation has worked in other states. The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce hosted a public educational forum Thursday with utility and economic experts to…
Forum explores options to decrease utility rates
WACH-TV January 16, 2019 by Shante Sumpter COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) – The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce is starting the discussion to decrease utility rates. The group hosted a forum to see how a deregulated utility market might look and serve ratepayers. Organizers say the market is undergoing…
Spate of Fed, State Bills Would Block Drilling
Coastal Review January 11, 2019 By Mark Hibbs WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Trump administration continues its push to open more U.S. coastal waters to offshore drilling, House Democrats introduced this week a barrage of bills that together would block new drilling for oil and natural gas on nearly all…
Regulators let SCE&G off for deceit, cover-ups, they say
Lexington County Chronicle January 10, 2019 By Jerry Bellune A state watchdog and other critics want regulators to reverse a nuclear ruling. The SC Office of Regulatory Staff, environmentalist groups Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club and the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce contend the Public Service…
Beaufort mayor is happy attorney general joined federal lawsuit against seismic testing
WTGS Fox28 January 10, 2019 Video By Caitlyn Penter BEAUFORT, S.C. (WTGS FOX 28) — On Monday, S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson announced he would be adding his name to a federal lawsuit against seismic testing off the South Carolina coast. The lawsuit now includes 16 S.C. cities, the South Carolina…
How the partial federal government shutdown affects small businesses
MultiBriefs January 9, 2019 By Seth Sandronsky On the 2016 campaign trail, President Trump vowed that Mexico would pay for a wall on its border with the U.S. from California east to Texas. That was then, and this is now: day 19 of a partial federal government shutdown. As Trump…
Opinion: SCE&G ratepayers should hope that PSC corrects the errors in their order
The State January 9, 2019 BY FRANK KNAPP JR. GUEST COLUMNIST I and other intervening parties were disappointed in the results of the S.C. Public Service Commission (PSC) hearing on SCE&G’s failed nuclear project and Dominion Energy. In its Dec. 21 order, the PSC allowed SCE&G to recover $2.3 billion…
OFFSHORE DRILLING: State officials vow to fight Trump plan
Energy Wire An E&E News Publication January 8, 2018 By Kelsey Brugger and Pamela King, E&E News reporters Hundreds of state legislators are banding together to fight the Trump administration’s plans to seriously expand offshore drilling. The National Caucus of Environmental Legislators announced that more than 225 state legislators from…
SC Attorney General Alan Wilson joins lawsuit to block offshore oil exploration (press release and radio interview)
Listen to radio interview with SC Attorney General Alan Wilson on his office joining lawsuit to block offshore exploration for oil. The interview aired on WGCV in Columbia, SC, on January 8, 2019. AG Alan Wilson moves to join lawsuit to block seismic testing and offshore drilling off SC coast…