South Carolina

A spokesman for Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said she is reviewing an anti-blasting petition filed by South Carolina.

Federal permits to search for oil put the state’s economy, tourism and natural resources at risk, says South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.

State-owned Santee Cooper has charged its former partner in the project, SCE&G, with mismanagement and breach of contract.

Columbia issued the first U.S. stormwater revenue bonds certified by the Climate Bond Initiative.

A think tank is urging residents to support selling the state-owned utility saying that would relieve ratepayers of paying billions in debt.

Fitch Ratings dropped the South Carolina utility’s rating two notches to A-minus and revised the outlook to negative, citing a legal claim by its largest customer.

Almost $7.5 billion of municipal bonds head into the marketplace in this holiday-shortened week.

Alabama-based Burr & Forman will gain McNair's significant public finance presence in South Carolina.

Dominion Energy said its management offer can be structured to preserve Santee Cooper’s tax-exempt status.

Five states also elect governors and voters in two states decide whether to restrict future tax increases.

Moody's Investors Service said Palmetto Health's integration with Greenville Health may result in a rating upgrade for Palmetto and a downgrade for Greenville.

While the impacts to the Carolinas are still being determined, one expert says the lessons learned from catastrophic events like Florence can be mitigated.

The region's volume numbers were supported by favorable market conditions that drove several large gas prepay deals.

Moody's lowered the South Carolina-owned public utility’s bond rating to A2, and its bank bond rating to A3.

State-owned Santee Cooper is battling cross claims by electric cooperatives that buy power from the agency in a suit over its shelved twin reactor project.

Fitch Ratings says the application of its new rating criteria is not expected to result in widespread downgrades.

State-owned Santee Cooper wants the high court to affirm its authority to set rates and pay off bonds that financed its scrubbed nuclear reactor project.

The merger will extend Nelson Mullins' reach to the third-most populous state and expand its public finance group.

State-owned utility Santee Cooper received two subpoenas that appear to focus on a secret assessment report about the foundering project.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are the first states to have created charitable funds that taxpayers can contribute to in order to claim a charitable deduction in lieu of paying state and local taxes.