Greenville County, SC

South Caroilina’s Climate, Energy and Commerce Advisory Committee has just published it’s latest CECAC Report.

In the report, recommendations for reducing carbon emissions throughout SC include:

• significantly cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 2020,
• increasing sources of renewable energy - including nuclear power,
• expanding bike and pedestrian opportunities and mass transit, and
• expanding our use of net metering, which allows electric users to generate and sell power back to the grid, forest conservation and methane reclamation.

With emissions growing at that rate across the state between ‘90 and ‘07 - twice that of the national average - hopefully Governor Sanford will be instrumental in creating new jobs to help our, and the rest of the nation’s environment, soon. With our unemployment rate hitting a 15-year high, something drastic needs to be done soon.

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Upstate residents have done a good job of cutting back on water usage since the voluntary request was issued, but the SC Drought Response Committee says more steps need to be taken now to avoid a true crisis later:

1. Water systems, businesses and individuals in the extreme drought counties should implement aggressive conservation measures,
2. Water systems need to immediately contact the DHEC and DNR if they anticipate water supply problems, and
3. Water systems should notify the DNR Drought Information Center regarding the success of their conservation actions.

Although not close to California’s scale, because of the drought we’re in right now, South Carolina’s lack of water has increased fires 19.5% over our 5 year average.

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