Environmental data for 2017 are pouring in, and the results might not be what you’d expect. In the United States, where President Trump has promised to unshackle the coal industry and to abandon an international climate change treaty, greenhouse-gas emissions fell last year and are expected to continue falling. In Europe, where political leaders consider climate change an urgent priority, emissions rose last year. In the United States, a report released last week by the Rhodi

We, the Executive Committee of the Lexington County GOP, humbly present the following proposals as priorities for the 2018 legislative session. The proposals listed below reflect the results of an issues survey conducted in June 2017 of the Lexington County GOP Executive Committee membership. The order in which each proposal appears indicates the weight the Committee gave to each issue. We call upon our legislative delegation to sponsor, or co-sponsor, legislation within t

President Donald J. Trump keeping his campaign promise by selecting Judge Gorsuch who has a conservative record & reputation for interpreting the Constitution as it's written. Great choice for the Supreme Court! Columbia, S.C. – SCGOP Chairman Matt Moore tonight issued the following statement upon President Donald J. Trump nominating Judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court: “Tonight, President Trump fulfilled one of his biggest campaign promises to the American people b

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was sworn in Wednesday by Vice President Mike Pence as the ambassador to the United Nations following an overwhelming confirmation vote by the Senate Tuesday evening. Haley took her oath the morning after the Senate voted 96-4 to approve her nomination. Just three Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voted against her. The former governor, who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, joins three of President Donald Trump’s other nomine

South Carolina’s lieutenant governor became its governor Tuesday, within an hour of Haley being confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and resigning from her job as the state’s chief executive. After the U.S. Senate voted 96-4 to confirm Haley’s appointment by President Donald Trump, McMaster and Haley appeared at the State House with S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Don Beatty in a ceremonial transfer of power. McMaster, 69, thanked Haley for her contribution to

Congressional Republicans are making rebuilding the U.S. military a focal point of the coming session, and South Carolina’s Rep. Joe Wilson on Wednesday was put into the heart of that effort. Wilson, a member of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee since he arrived in Congress in 2002, was named the chairman of the subcommittee on military readiness. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said in an interview Wednesday tha