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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Seven times either I or the SC Small Business Chamber has intervened in rate hearings for SCE&G and Duke Energy. Seven times the public was told that these power companies had to have every penny of their rate hike proposal or their world would come to an end. Seven times their rate increases have been …
Momentum is building in the U.S. Senate for change in the filibuster rules. If you remember at the start of the current session Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refused to allow a vote on significantly changing the filibuster rules. The Senate has become dysfunctional with nothing really getting done due to the abuse of the …
Bloomberg NewsFebruary 6, 2013 By Mark Drajem http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-02-05/greenhouse-gas-emissions-fall-in-u-dot-s-dot-power-plants-on-coal-cuts Natural gas and oil production is the second-biggest source of U.S. greenhouse gases, the government said, emboldening environmentalists who say tighter measures are needed to curb the emissions from hydraulic fracturing. In its second-annual accounting of emissions that cause global warming from stationary sources, the U.S. Environmental …
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A “cancerous worm”? That is what an infamous blogger called me back on June 27th, the day I testified before the U.S. House Small Business Committee. Will Folks, or little “Billy” as they called him in the many high schools he attended, has the most well-read blog in South Carolina, FitsNews.com. But the former spokesman …
E & E News Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter Published June 28, 2012 U.S. EPA under President Obama has frequently given short shrift to the needs and concerns of small businesses when crafting regulations, business-sector critics of the agency told the House Small Business Committee yesterday. The hearing was attended almost exclusively by Republican committee members …
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Frank Knapp, Jr., president and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce will testify in Washington, DC at the House Committee for Small Business today at 1 p.m. The hearing is entitled, Regulatory Flexibility Act Compliance: Is EPA Failing Small Business? Mr. Knapp will be representing both the SC Small Business Chamber …
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The Huffington Post 6/24/2012 By Lisa P. Jackson–chief administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency David Levine–co-founder and CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council For many years, we have been told that we have to choose between growing the economy and protecting the environment — especially as we worked to recover from the sharp …
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Take action today by clicking here. All recent surveys of small business owners have shown that they support the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Carbon Pollution Rules for new power plants that will help propel our country into the renewable, clean energy economy. These rules will also reduce carbon pollution which is driving climate change resulting …
What do the small business owners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, Nevada and Colorado have in common with those across the country? On political demographics and opinions on some important issues apparently a lot. Earlier this year a national survey of small business owners commissioned by the American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street Alliance and …
