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Tuesday, April 30, 2013  An environmental group has sued Santee Cooper, saying the state-owned utility has known for more than a decade that arsenic was seeping from its coal-fired power plant In Conway.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013  The state-owned utility Santee Cooper plans to enclose coal ash ponds at a closed power plant in Horry County with a cement vault to prevent contamination.

Monday, February 25, 2013  South Carolina's state-owned utility has agreed to loan the Laurens County Development Commission $1.5 million to build a shell building.

Friday, February 22, 2013  An environmental group has filed a complaint with a federal agency about pollution at a Santee Cooper plant in Conway.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012  Environmental groups are suing to force a South Carolina agency to issue a new permit for a pools used to store coal ash.

Friday, August 10, 2012  An environmental group says South Carolina's coal-fired power plants and paper mills are keeping the state among the nation's worst industrial polluters.

Monday, July 23, 2012  Berkeley County authorities have released the name of a Lexington County man killed after he jumped from a bridge support into a canal.

Monday, July 02, 2012  Regulators have chosen two new resident inspectors at a South Carolina nuclear plant where two new reactors will soon be constructed.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012  Officials with South Carolina Electric & Gas and the state-owned utility Santee Cooper are celebrating the licenses that will allow them to build two nuclear reactors in Fairfield County.  However, opponents say the reactors are not necessary and the design has not been properly reviewed since last March's Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan.

Monday, April 09, 2012  South Carolina Electric and Gas officials are showing off the site of the first new nuclear reactors in South Carolina in more than 25 years.

Friday, November 25, 2011  A new holiday light display staged by Santee Cooper is using green power.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011  Williams-Brice Stadium will be a crayon box of garnet, black, orange, and purple Saturday night for the annual Carolina-Clemson football game.  This year, they'll be adding some green.

Friday, November 18, 2011  Governor Nikki Haley says energy costs will not lead to a shutdown of a plant in Berkeley County that employs about 640 people. Haley toured the Alcoa aluminum-smelting plant near Goose Creek on Thursday.

Friday, August 19, 2011  Federal nuclear inspectors say a proposal to build two nuclear reactors at a site near Columbia passed a safety inspection.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011  The two electricity companies said Wednesday they have signed a letter of intent that opens a path for Duke Energy to explore a minority stake in the new reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station about 25 miles northwest of Columbia.