NC WARN says Gov. Stein should be pushing the giant NC-based polluter A globally prominent climate scientist is again speaking out against Duke Energy’s accelerating and massive expansion of fossil fuels and its suppression of renewable power. NC WARN has launched statewide ads asking why Governor Josh Stein isn’t pushing …
Duke Energy & State Regulators
NC WARN regularly challenges Duke Energy to make a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and energy efficiency. We intervene at the NC Utilities Commission in cases involving Duke’s rate increases and 15-year Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs). And we have repeatedly reached out directly to the corporation’s executives, seeking to collaborate with them on finding ways to avert climate catastrophe. A few examples are listed here.
Related:
- Check out the new coalition: Energy Justice NC: End the Duke Monopoly
- Duke Energy page on Energy & Policy Institute website
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Duke Energy wants coal, gas for rising power needs. Clean-energy groups object. — The News & Observer
By Martha Quillin Duke Energy expects North Carolina’s electricity demands to soar over the next 15 years and says it will meet the need reliably and affordably by building new gas and nuclear power plants and extending the lives of its aging coal-fired plants. Clean-energy advocates have assailed the company’s …
Duke Energy Doubles Down on Climate Destruction and Soaring Power Bills — Statement by Executive Director Jim Warren
Statement by Executive Director Jim Warren: Duke Energy’s newly filed resource plan continues the horrible record of one of the world’s worst climate polluters. Duke proposes to greatly increase methane gas for power and experimental nuclear plants while extending its burning of coal for at least 15 years. The plan slashes projections …
Business Leaders Increase Pressure on N.C. Governor to Curb Duke Energy’s Fossil Fuel Expansion — News Release from NC WARN & Center for Biological Diversity
Organizations and businesses can still add their names to the letter to Governor Josh Stein! Sign on here. DURHAM, N.C.— More than 200 businesses and nonprofit groups have now joined prominent climate scientists in pressing North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein to challenge Duke Energy’s huge expansion of fossil fuels and …
61 Scientists Call for State Leadership vs. Giant Climate Polluter — NC WARN News Release
As flooding disasters increase, Duke Energy expands fossil fuels and suppresses solutions As the science has predicted, worsening storms, heat waves and catastrophic flooding events are increasingly devastating the people of eastern, western, and now central North Carolina. The climate situation is desperate. But 61 scientists are calling on NC …
Will NC Politicians Help Duke Energy Gamble our Power Bills and Safety on Experimental Nuclear Plants? — NC WARN News Release
NC SB 266 would shield Duke from risk – after the corporation failed 19 times building reactors NC WARN’s attorney and activists worked with Southeastern allies to help block over two dozen experimental Westinghouse reactors in the 2010s. Corner-cutting, deception and corporate arrogance were keys to the billions of dollars …
Duke Energy Has Failed 19 Times Building Nuclear Plants — NC WARN News Release
63% failure rate has wasted billions; now Duke wants customers and taxpayers stuck with even more risk for mythical reactors Statement by Executive Director Jim Warren: A new analysis by NC WARN shows that Duke Energy and its subsidiaries cancelled 18 of the nuclear reactors they tried to build between …
North Carolina Town Responds to Duke Energy’s Bid to Kill Climate Deception Lawsuit
CARRBORO, N.C.— Duke Energy Corporation is sidestepping detailed allegations about its role in a decades-long campaign to deceive the public about the dangers of fossil fuels, worsening the climate crisis and costing a North Carolina town millions of dollars in damages, according to a legal filing today from the town …
Scores of Scientists Urge N.C. Governor to Halt Duke Energy’s Fossil Fuel Buildout — News Release from NC WARN & Center for Biological Diversity
WASHINGTON— More than 60 U.S. research scientists today urged North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein to use his executive authority to stop Duke Energy Corp.’s fossil-fuel buildout and suppression of renewable energy solutions. These actions are critical to avoiding the worst damages of the climate emergency and to save lives, the …
Statewide Ads Urge NC Governor Stein to Stop Duke Energy’s Climate-wrecking Practices — NC WARN News Release
NC WARN has begun running this 30-second video as a statewide paid ad on TV newscasts, YouTube and other platforms. The video shows the aftermath of storms worsened by Duke Energy’s reliance on climate-wrecking fracked gas and urges Gov. Stein to take bold leadership. Static variations are on some social …