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Federal grand jury to consider possible wrongdoing in coal ash spill — WBTV, Charlotte

March 18, 2014

A federal grand jury convened in Raleigh as part of a criminal investigation triggered by the massive coal ash spill from Duke Energy.

Duke Energy’s Coal Ash Negligence

March 13, 2014

The Alliance of Carolinians Together (ACT) Against Coal Ash is a statewide coalition working to hold Duke Energy accountable for its coal ash mess.

On January 14, 2016, ACT invited Governor Pat McCrory to have dinner with people living near Duke coal ash dumps and hear their side of the story.

NC WARN Contests Duke Energy’s Fracking-Gas Plant Proposal — News Release from NC WARN

March 11, 2014

The proposed 750-megawatt fracking gas-burning plant near Anderson, SC would likely cost over $1 billion, so the NC regulators must scrutinize the cost and need now, not later in a rate case after the plant is built.

Protesters rally in Raleigh for stricter regulations on Duke Energy — WNCT

March 5, 2014

A group of protesters rallied outside the Executive Mansion in Raleigh Wednesday to demand stricter regulations on Duke Energy. The protesters demanded that Gov. Pat McCrory “come clean on the coal ash spill and his own personal financial ties to Duke Energy.”

Duke-Progress Merger OK’d by Appeals Court — News Release from NC WARN

March 4, 2014

The NC Court of Appeals today denied NC WARN’s challenge to the 2012 corporate merger that created the world’s largest electric utility. We believe the Court erred and we are likely to appeal to the NC Supreme Court.

Group to protest Duke Energy rates, pay-in-person fees — WNCN

February 28, 2014

The Triangle Duke Energy Action group will hold a rally Friday to call on Duke Energy to stop making people pay a fee if they pay their electric bills in person.

Duke Energy Action Group (DAG)

February 28, 2014

Activists will hold a rally Friday to call on Duke Energy to stop making people pay a fee if they pay their electric bills in person.The Triangle Duke Energy Action group plans to gather at a check cashing business in Durham to protest what they say are high rates.

NC WARN and the John Locke Foundation Team Up For Electricity Competition — WUNC

February 25, 2014

The State of Things host Frank Stasio talks with Jim Warren, NC WARN’s executive director, and Jon Sanders, the John Locke Foundation’s director of regulatory studies, about the two groups’ public forum calling for increased competition in the power industry and challenging Duke Energy’s monopoly on electricity in the state.

It’s abrupt climate change, stupid

February 17, 2014

This is not how it was supposed to happen. The standard climate change predictions said that people in the tropics and the sub-tropics would be badly hurt by global warming long before the people living in the temperate zones, farther away from the equator, were feeling much pain at all.

Strange Bedfellows

February 14, 2014

NC WARN and the conservative John Locke Foundation agree that increased competition in the North Carolina electricity market would help customers benefit from the rapid changes occurring in the U.S. electricity marketplace. The groups are sponsoring two public forums.

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