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Duke Energy Wants To Raise Rates to Pay For Major Storms in 2018 — WFMY NEWS 2

January 18, 2019

Duke Energy has filed a request to the North Carolina Utilities Commission seeking approval for additional rate hikes. The Charlotte-based utility company wants to charge its customers for costs related to three destructive 2018 storms.

Robeson County Opposes Duke Rate Hike — Robesonian

January 10, 2019

Robeson County leaders are taking a stand against Duke Energy’s plan to seek state approval to charge more for the electricity it sells. The utility says its needs to raise rates to pay for costs incurred during recent weather events, including Hurricane Florence.

Global warming will happen faster than we think — nature

December 5, 2018

Three trends will combine to hasten it, warn Yangyang Xu, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and David G. Victor.

Climate change is more extensive and worse than once thought — Miami Herald

November 29, 2018

Climate scientists missed a lot about a quarter century ago when they predicted how bad global warming would be.

How Extreme Weather is Shrinking the Planet — The New Yorker

November 26, 2018

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.

What’s New in the Latest U.S. Climate Assessment — New York Times

November 23, 2018

Global warming is now affecting the United States more than ever, and the risks of future disasters — from flooding along the coasts to crop failures in the Midwest — could pose a profound threat to Americans’ well-being.

‘Like a Terror Movie’: How Climate Change Will Cause More Simultaneous Disasters — New York Times

November 19, 2018

Global warming is posing such wide-ranging risks to humanity, involving so many types of phenomena, that by the end of this century some parts of the world could face as many as six climate-related crises at the same time, researchers say.

‘We have a duty to act’: hundreds ready to go to jail over climate crisis — The Guardian

October 26, 2018

A new group of “concerned citizens” is planning a campaign of mass civil disobedience starting next month and promises it has hundreds of people – from teenagers to pensioners – ready to get arrested in an effort to draw attention to the unfolding climate emergency.

A More Just Hurricane Florence Recovery Effort in North Carolina — OP-ED

September 26, 2018

Op-Ed by Connie Leeper and Jodi Lasseter. Now that the winds and rains of Hurricane Florence have gone, North Carolinians are mobilizing a relief and recovery process for the eastern part of the state… Without an intentional focus on equity and access, this kind of giving often misses the people who are most in need of assistance and who have been leading the work to build community resilience long before this storm hit.

Duke Energy Leaders Made Hurricane Florence Worse — Op-Ed from NC WARN

September 19, 2018

Op-Ed by Jim Warren. The latest in a string of monster storms of recent years, Hurricane Florence punctuates the fact that the cost of climate pollution is accelerating. Duke Energy executives bear much of the blame for Hurricane Florence’s devastation.
Read Duke’s deceptive rebuttal
And NC WARN’s response to it

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