EPA

When it comes to predicting the impact of EPA rules, we can’t trust the utility companies

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…

Fracking Seen by EPA as No. 2 Emitter of Greenhouse Gases

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…

My adventure with Mick and little Billy

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,…

SC Small Business Chamber President to Testify in Washington Today

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…

A Time for Bold Action to Build a Sustainable Economy

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…

Two small business polls you should read

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…