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Duke Energy Buried Damaging Evidence in Carbon Plan Case — News Release from NC WARN
Duke Energy Again Wants to Gamble Billions of Public Dollars and Climate Chaos on Experimental Nuclear Plants — NC WARN News Release
By 2017, Duke Energy had squandered billions of dollars and 13 years failing to license and build experimental nuclear reactors they had insisted would avoid the massive construction failures of the 1970s. Now, Duke is seeking approval of a carbon plan with a different type of experimental reactor – with unfinished design and already-soaring costs – and proposes to build dozens of them in the Carolinas alone.
Distributed Solar Plus Storage Ignored in Carbon Plan Process — News Release from NC WARN
Solid Wall of Opposition to Duke Energy’s Profit-Driven Carbon Plan — Alert from NC WARN
The opposition to Duke Energy’s draft carbon plan goes deep. Scores of parties are opposing – many of them vigorously – Duke’s costly, natural gas-heavy proposal. Included are local governments; faith, social justice and climate justice groups; national, state and local clean energy nonprofits and business alliances; 33 former EPA officials; various business and industrial groups, and the state attorney general’s office.
NO DEALS FOR DUKE ENERGY GAS EXPANSION — STATEMENT FROM NC WARN
NC Republican leader: Duke Energy has too much political power — News and Observer Oped by R. LEE CURRIE JR.
McClatchy’s recent eye-opening investigative reporting on Duke Energy’s lavish campaign contributions intended to influence elected state lawmakers should alarm conservatives, moderates and liberals alike — for it’s a tale of chronic abuse of corporate power at the expense of millions of financially-strapped consumers.