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SC Ports users making tariff contingencies while consumers prepare to foot the bill

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Post and Courier November 10, 2024 SC Ports users making tariff contingencies while consumers prepare to foot the bill By David Wren It’s like 2018 all over again, and businesses that import goods through the Port of Charleston are making contingency plans. “We have been planning for this possibility since the spring,” Mike Creedon, CEO […]

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Let BIG TECH build data centers “anywhere in the world” but here

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Press Statement September 27, 2024 Let BIG TECH build data centers “anywhere in the world” but here Statement of Frank Knapp Jr., President and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, in response to comments by Lilyn Hester, head of southeast external affairs and government relations for Google.  Ms. Hesters is quoted

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Knapp testimony to Senate Special Committee on SC’s Energy Future

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South Carolina Senate Special Committee on South Carolina’s Energy Future Testimony of Frank Knapp Jr. President & CEO South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce   September 12, 2024   Chairmen Massey and Setzler, members of the Committee, I appreciate being allowed to provide testimony to you on this critical issue.  I am Frank Knapp,

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SC solar designer and installer joins business chamber board

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Press Release August 1, 2024 SC solar designer and installer joins business chamber board   Columbia, SC—Orrie Boss has joined the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, a statewide advocacy organization with a 24-year record of successful advocacy at the state and federal levels. Boss is the Principal and

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Trump policies could place S.C.’s trade at risk, experts say

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Charleston City Paper July 26, 2024 Trump policies could place S.C.’s trade at risk, experts say by Jack OToole Former President Donald Trump effectively doubled down on the populist tariff and immigration policies that helped fuel his surprise victory in 2016 by choosing Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate at last week’s Republican convention.

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Small business supports Biden’s immigration reform to address labor shortage

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Press Statement June 18, 2024 Contact:  Frank Knapp, 803-600-6874, fknapp@scsbc.org Small business supports Biden’s immigration reform to address labor shortage Today, President Biden announced that he will be taking action to allow undocumented spouses of Americans to apply for legal residency and a green card as well as receive a temporary work permit.  The program

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Settlement Agreement reached in Duke Energy rate case

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Press Release May 17, 2024 Settlement Agreement reached in Duke Energy rate case Public Service Commission must still approve Columbia, SC—A comprehensive Settlement Agreement was filed today with the SC Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding Duke Energy Carolinas’ electric rate case. Duke had requested a rate increase that would have raised its rates 17.4% for

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Editorial: If SC is running out of power, we shouldn’t be paying data centers to move here

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Post and Courier April 23, 2024 BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF The proposal to eliminate South Carolina’s still-new consumer protections and greenlight a massive new natural gas plant near Canadys has generated counter calls by environmentalists and ratepayer advocates to target one of the state’s biggest emerging energy hogs: computer data centers. First former PSC Commissioner Tom

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ACTION ALERT!!!! CALL/EMAIL STATE SENATORS BEFORE 4/9/24

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April 7, 2024 ACTION ALERT!!!! CALL/EMAIL STATE SENATORS BEFORE 4/9/24 STOP ANTI-CONSUMER ENERGY BILL THAT WILL GUARANTEE HIGHER ELECTRIC RATES!   This week the SC Senate Judiciary Committee will meet to debate H.5118, the anti-consumer legislation masquerading as an energy security act. Here is what the bill will do: –The bill would fire the current

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SC House advances controversial energy reform bill; fight anticipated in Senate

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Post and Courier March 27, 2024 By Nick Reynolds COLUMBIA — Kicking off debate on a sweeping energy policy reform bill that lawmakers have painted as a solution to the state’s looming energy crisis, Belton Republican Rep. Jay West — one of the bill’s principal architects — talked his colleagues in the state House of Representatives through

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