COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has taken the expected step of vetoing a bill that did not entirely eliminate a charge customers of a private utility are paying for two nuclear plants that were never finished.
  
In Thursday’s veto message, McMaster also asked lawmakers to stay and pass a bill that fully eliminates the 18 percent surcharge on South Carolina Electric & Gas bills because that was the only fair solution.
  
The House ignored the request and voted 110-1 just minutes after the veto was issued to approve a 15 percent rate cut. The Senate was expected to take up the veto soon.
  
Virginia-based Dominion Energy again said the rate cuts for six months could cause it to pull out of a proposed merger with SCE&G’s parent company SCANA Corp.

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