REGISTER FOR THE MEMBERSHIP TOWN HALL March 31 at 3 PM ET 2021 represents an opportunity for responsible businesses and investors to mobilize in favor of policy solutions that ensure a transition towards a more equitable and sustainable economic model. After a year in which our country experienced a devastating…
You can help stop Dominion’s “industry-killing” proposal on rooftop solar
If you want to weigh in on the new solar net metering tariff proposed by Dominion Energy, now is your chance. See below for more information that a SC solar company calls an “industry-killing” proposal. The Public Service Commission of South Carolina (PSC) has scheduled a virtual public night hearing…
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…
Register for A Briefing on the Biden Climate Plan with Tom Steyer
August 12, 12- 1 PM ET A growing number of private sector companies, business leaders and business associations are leading in addressing the climate crisis through innovations in their supply chains, reducing overall energy usage, shifting to renewables, changing the mix of their investments, and engaging on policy. ASBC convenes this…
Can Electric Vehicles Replace New Offshore Drilling?
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) blog May 20, 2020 By Chris Carnevale 10 years ago today, hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil were gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Macondo oil well, following the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig’s catastrophic and deadly explosion. Over 87 days,…
House Passes SHIELD Act of 2019
Date: October 28, 2019 From: Protect Democracy USA Subject: House Passes SHIELD Act of 2019 Contact: Frank Knapp, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), protectdemocracyusa@gmail.com House Passes SHIELD Act of 2019 Columbia, SC—This past Wednesday the U.S. House passed the SHIELD Act of 2019 that would help protect our nation’s elections from…
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Register Now for the ASBC Sustainable Business & Advocacy Summit: “Making Capitalism Work for All” – Dec. 10-11, 2019 in DC The stakes are higher every day, but it often feels like only a few people get it. You know our consumer economy can’t thrive without broad-based prosperity – and…
Opinion: New Corporate Purpose Equals New Opportunity
Inside Sources August 30, 2019 by Rhett Buttle The Business Roundtable, an influential group of CEOs of America’s most powerful corporations, made headlines recently by declaring they would no longer define the purpose of a corporation as solely focused on generating returns for shareholders. Instead, they declared that the purpose…
Announcing: Health Insurance Tele-Town Hall & ASBC Business Summit
Tele-Town Hall Invitation: Small Business Owners and Health Care Costs September 12th @ 2:30ET You are invited to join Public Private Strategies for a lively online discussion on Thursday, September 12 at 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT. We’re talking about new research, supported by the Commonwealth Fund, conducted into how health care costs…
Businesses externalizing their costs to society
One of the reasons the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce opposes bills in the Legislature that would fundamentally alter our state’s workers’ compensation laws is that these bills would externalize certain costs of big businesses related to their injured workers. So what does that mean? Simply put it…