In June of 2017, then Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke told the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that maintenance and repair revenues for our national parks was woefully inadequate. Zinke blamed a significant drop in federal royalty revenue from offshore oil drilling as the reason. These revenues were down $11.5 billion from […]
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PRESS RELEASE Date:      October 7, 2019 From:     South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject:  Klobuchar, Yang, Steyer, Castro, Gabbard, Buttigieg Failing Litmus Test Contact:  Frank Knapp, President/CEO, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Six Democratic presidential candidates asked for Day One commitment Columbia, SC—On October 15th twelve candidates will participate in the next Democratic presidential
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Hilton Head Island Packet October 4, 2019 By Frank Knapp Jr. Special to The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette Coastal voters strongly want to protect our shore from offshore oil drilling and the inevitable spills and leaks that would devastate our marine life and coastal tourism, commercial fishing and recreation economies. Opposing drilling in
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September 12, 2019 The US House passed H.R. 1941 yesterday. The bill was sponsored by South Carolina Representative Joe Cunningham and bans offshore drilling for oil in the Atlantic, Pacific and the Straits of Florida. The bill now goes to the GOP controlled Senate where it will likely die without even getting a committee hearing.
September 9, 2019 As early as tomorrow the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a bill, sponsored by South Carolina’s Joe Cunningham, to prohibit the leasing of federal waters for offshore oil drilling along the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and in the Straits of Florida. It is critical that the Coastal and Marine Economies
PRESS RELEASE Date:      September 5, 2019 From:     South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject:  Kamala Harris Onboard with Day One Action Plan on Offshore Drilling Contact:  Frank Knapp, President/CEO, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Columbia, SC—With Hurricane Dorian demonstrating the destructive fury awaiting any oil drilling rigs that the Trump Administration wishes for the
A big THANK YOU to the Cory Booker campaign for including comments from the SC Small Business Chamber in its press release today (see below). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2019 Cory Booker Releases Historic Climate and Environmental Justice Plan That Would Directly Impact South Carolina Columbia, SC — Today, Cory Booker released a sweeping $3
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PRESS RELEASE Date: September 4, 2019 From: South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject: Sanders Calls For Day One Action Plan on Offshore Drilling Contact: Frank Knapp, President/CEO, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Columbia, SC—Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has recently released an extensive plan to move the nation to renewable sources of energy.Â
Hilton Head Island Packet August 7, 2019 By Stephen Fastenau We asked these Lowcountry residents for their opinion on offshore drilling at a forum on the subject sponsored by the League of Women Voters and Coastal Conservation League at the Hilton Head Library on Feb. 1. Here’s what they had to say. By Jay Karr
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Media contact: Amy Armstrong, Esquire Executive Director South Carolina Environmental Law Project amy@scelp.org (843) 527-0078 SCDHEC Asked to Revisit 2015 Decisions to Approve Seismic Testing Permits 16 South Carolina coastal communities and the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce ask state agency to coordinate with BOEM to review prior state seismic testing authorizations (Georgetown, SC
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