CHARLESTON (AP) A federal judge in South Carolina has ruled the Trump administration did not properly seek public input when it suspended protections designed to thwart waterway pollution. The Post and Courier newspaper reports the decision by U.S. District Judge David Norton ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A South Carolina utility should be forced to refund the more than $450 million collected from its customers in connection with a nuclear construction project since the venture failed, ratepayers’ attorneys argue in a lawsuit against the company. ...

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South Carolina-based U.S. Attorney Sherri Lydon settled a civil lawsuit July 26 for $9.1 million with 3M Company to resolve accusations that it knowingly sold defective earplugs to the United States military. Lydon was joined in bringing the lawsuit by ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A South Carolina utility told a federal judge on July 30 that it played by the rules, so lawmakers should too, even if it means saddling customers with billions of dollars of debt from a failed nuclear project. South ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina election officials are accused in a new lawsuit of failing to keep the state’s voting processes secure. The State newspaper reports the suit, which was filed July 10, says the South Carolina Election Commission has deprived voters of ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Customers of South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. moved another step closer July 3 to seeing a rate reduction after a failed multibillion-dollar nuclear project. During a brief meeting, the Public Service Commission ordered South Carolina Electric & Gas ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A federal judge has blocked the proposed shutdown of a plant in South Carolina which would turn plutonium used in nuclear weapons into fuel for nuclear reactors. U.S. District Court Judge Michelle Childs handed down the decision June ...

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