COLUMBIA — Gov. Henry McMaster picked Charleston Republican Peter McCoy Jr. to lead Santee Cooper, the troubled state-owned utility that is working to redeem itself from its $4 billion nuclear fiasco. After stints as chairman of the S.C. House’s powerful Judiciary Committee and then as U.S. Attorney for South Carolina, McCoy is poised to lead...
COLUMBIA — In September 2017, then-state Rep. Peter McCoy was listening to SCANA ratepayers from across South Carolina rail against the company’s high energy prices during a Statehouse committee hearing when a notification popped up on his phone with some pertinent news. Investigators were launching a criminal probe into the cancelled construction of two nuclear power...
Peter served his entire tenure in the SC House on the Judiciary Committee where he later was elected unanimously by his legislative colleagues to serve as Chairman. Peter also served on the Judicial Merit Selection Committee as well as the Colleges and University Selection Committee.
