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Tell SC senators to protect South Carolina, not utility profits

There’s a lot at stake for South Carolinians this year at the legislature. While a harmful methane gas bill was halted last year, the same bad provisions are back, taking aim at customer protections put in place after the abandoned, $9 billion VC Summer nuclear plant debacle that ensure South Carolinians can weigh in on threats to their health, environment, and wallets.

The House is pursuing damaging legislation that hastens the construction of methane gas pipelines and plants in the name of profit, rolls back existing transparency and fairness in the energy planning process, and leaves out commonsense solutions like cost-saving energy efficiency and clean energy.

But there’s still a chance to protect our customer rights and our natural resources. After stopping the misguided House bill last year and convening a special committee to listen to stakeholders, the Senate can lead us toward a balanced and resilient energy future with reasonable legislation.

You can help today by asking your state senator to protect South Carolinians with a bill that protects our rights to transparency and clean air and water first – not utilities’ right to profit.

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The South Carolina Senate has an opportunity to strengthen ratepayer protections and invest in commonsense, responsible energy options that serve our growing state.

While H. 3309 and H. 3928 strip customer protections put in place after the $9 billion VC Summer debacle and write utilities a blank check to build methane gas plants and pipelines without proper regard for SC residents and the environment, you can once again lead efforts to maintain transparency and fairness in the energy planning process and protect our state’s clean air and water. We don’t need to risk another Base Load Review Act disaster to pad utility bottom lines.

South Carolina needs low-cost, reliable, and safe energy and better energy efficiency programs, not methane gas pipelines that threaten some of our state’s most cherished natural resources and an expensive methane gas plant in the ACE Basin that won’t serve customers until the 2030s. We also need stronger energy customer protections that ensure we are informed when an energy project might affect our bills, communities, or environment.

Please protect South Carolinians with a bill that protects our rights to transparency and clean air and water first – not utilities’ right to profit.

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