I started working for NC WARN with the intent to blend my decades of experience from non-profit work with my activism at the intersections of various justice movements.
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Legal Challenge Filed vs Duke Energy’s Once-Hidden Attack on Commercial-Nonprofit Solar
NC WARN also redoubles call for Governor, Attorney General to demand transparency in utility’s two-pronged attack on local solar, as “customer calculator” remains a failure Unable to openly justify a major rule change for solar used by businesses, faith groups, schools and nonprofits, Duke Energy buried its proposal under thousands …
Investigate Duke Energy’s $10B Land Seizure and Grid Scheme, Group Tells Gov, AG
NC WARN says Duke Energy has been hiding aggressive plans to waste billions on new and expanded, high-voltage transmission corridors that would target vulnerable communities while limiting large and local solar power projects for years.
Red States Go Renewable; Duke Holds NC Back — NC WARN News Release
Duke Energy is increasingly isolated as it expands fracked natural gas and suppresses solar Several recent advances in attitudes and actions to move the U.S. off fossil fuels are encouraging, even as the head of the United Nations last week demanded phase-out of coal, natural gas and oil while insisting …
Protected: NC WARN Annual Membership Meeting 2021 — Hope Amid Climate Crisis
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Protected: NC WARN Annual Membership Meeting 2020 — Gaining Ground on Climate Justice
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Duke Boosted Donations to Grease Ugly Bill — News Release from EJNC
A report out today from a coalition of 14 community and environmental justice organizations reveals that Duke Energy skewed its political campaign contributions last year in order to gain support from Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue and other lawmakers instrumental in reviewing what is now a highly controversial bill.
John Runkle: celebrating a lifetime of environmental justice service
We already miss John’s daily presence. But he’s going to remain close to NC WARN, so when you see him at events, thank him for his dedication to environmental justice across North Carolina.
Duke Energy says it’s proud of its record on clean energy — News & Observer
Letter to the editor from Duke Energy. Jim Warren of NC WARN [is] back at it again, with thinly sourced claims, wild insinuations and plain old fear-mongering. It’s an insult to the people who have been working around the clock to restore power to the Carolinas. Out of respect to the work they’re doing, I’d like to provide some facts in response to the rhetoric.
ACP owners confident — The Robesonian
The governmental approval process for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline continues at a pace that points to construction beginning in early 2018… The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval ruling of Oct. 13 … is being challenged by NC WARN, a Durham-based nonprofit that addresses “the climate crisis and other hazards posed by electricity generation.”