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 …
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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 …
150 Businesses, Groups Urge N.C. Governor to Rein in Fossil Fuel-Friendly Duke Energy — News Release from NC WARN & Center for Biological Diversity
Climate Lawsuit, Soaring Global Heat Spur Call to End Decades of Deception DURHAM, N.C. – Today 150 environmental, social justice, faith and youth organizations and businesses from across the country called on North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein to confront Duke Energy Corp.’s expansion of planet-warming fossil fuels and obstruction of …
“A Shocking Rise of Warming” Reported by Hansen, Top Climate Team — NC WARN News Release
Duke Energy, other top global polluters must rapidly phase out – not expand – fossil fuels! An international climate science team led by James Hansen says the acceleration of global heating has been greatly underestimated, that a crucial threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius is now being crossed and that an …
Gov. Cooper Greenwashes Duke Energy Before Leaving Office — NC WARN News Release
Expanding fossil fuels and suppressing climate solutions is lousy legacy In an interview in his final days as Governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper repeated the pretense that North Carolina is transitioning to clean energy. Cooper said he regrets that Duke Energy leaders are planning to add “a little more …
Lawsuit Targets Duke Energy’s Decades of Climate Deception, Harm to North Carolina Town
NC WARN is honored to work with the Town of Carrboro and the Center for Biological Diversity on this project. Contacts: Patrice Toney, Town of Carrboro, (919) 918-7315, ptoney@carrboronc.gov Jim Warren, NC WARN, (919) 416-5077, jim@ncwarn.org Jean Su, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 770-3187, jsu@biologicaldiversity.org CARRBORO, N.C.— The town of …