energy

Thomas Friedman writes in The New York Times: So Graham’s approach to bringing around his conservative state has been simple: avoid talking about “climate change,” which many on the right don’t believe. Instead, frame our energy challenge as a need to “clean up carbon pollution,” to “become energy independent” and to “create more good jobs and new industries for South Carolinians.” More

There's lots happening up in Columbia lately from looking at ways to finance a long-term way to store radioactive waste, to rebuilding the Employment Security Commission and making it harder to get unemployment benefits, to tattoos being OK'd for 18-year-olds. More

Interested in a low-speed electric vehicle to get around the neighborhood and do some nearby shopping? Well, one Mount Pleasant auto dealer is hoping you're not the only one. More

Over the next 18 months, SCE&G wants to rais electricity rates some 9.5% in anticipation of more expensive electricity generation costs. More

Gov. Mark Sanford opposed the notion that government and not private dollars were being spent to fuel a wind research site at the Clemson Restoration Institute in North Charleston, still the funding made it past the vote. More

Boasting of a fuel cost that is 75% less per mile, Plug-In Carolina has announced a $240,000 grant that will allow for eight public car-charging stations in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, and Spartanburg. More

Spurred on by resident complaints, The Post and Courier's Tony Bartelme did some extensive digging to see what was going on with well water contamination that looked an awful lot like coal. More

Last week the jobs community was abuzz with news that Clemson had secured $98 million to build and run a large-scale wind turbine drive train testing facility in North Charleston. More