It didn’t take long for battle lines to be drawn as state regulators opened their hearing on Duke Energy Corp.’s $100 billion proposals for the state-mandated N.C. Carbon Plan to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050.
Carbon Plan
In 2021, HB951 instructed the NC Utilities Commission to establish a state carbon plan to reduce CO2 emissions 70% by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The carbon plan will be in place by December 2022 and reviewed every 2 years thereafter.
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Top Climate Scientists: Stopping Natural Gas Expansions Can Help “very, very quickly” … But Duke Energy Leaders Blow Off the Warning — News Release from NC WARN
Should NC’s clean energy future include more nuclear power? Duke Energy thinks so — USA Today Network
33 EPA Alumni Challenge Duke Energy Carbon Plan
NC WARN Supports Clean Energy Groups’ Carbon Plan — News Release from NC WARN
Rigging for Regulators: How Duke Energy Misled NC Utilities Commissioners, Public on Draft Carbon Plan — News Release from NC WARN
A scam to expand gas: Duke Energy carbon plan — News Release from Charlotte Mecklenburg NAACP & NC WARN
On Air Today: Grading Duke Energy’s Carbon Plan — WCHL & Chapelboro
Curbing Other Climate Pollutants, Not Just CO2, Gives Earth a Chance — News release from Duke University
Slashing emissions of carbon dioxide by itself isn’t enough to prevent catastrophic global warming, a new study shows. But if we simultaneously also reduce emissions of methane and other often overlooked climate pollutants, we could cut the rate of global warming in half by 2050 and give the world a fighting chance.