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Solar Test Case Targets State Policy in North Carolina

June 2, 2016

Church gets solar power from climate justice partner in third party deal, arguing state needs energy competition, not monopoly control of rooftops

NC WARN & Faith Community Church’s Solar Freedom Project News Release and Photos

Media coverage

Groups File to Intervene in Duke Energy-PNG Merger — News Release from NC WARN

May 31, 2016

The NC Housing Coalition, The Climate Times and NC WARN have jointly filed to become parties in a merger proposed by Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas.

Groups File Notice of Appeal vs Duke Energy Power Plant — News Release from NC WARN & The Climate Times

May 31, 2016

NC WARN and The Climate Times have filed Notice of Appeal in their efforts to expose a Duke Energy power plant proposed for Asheville as unneeded, and disastrous both for customers and for the increasingly urgent fight to slow global warming.

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Has Passed the Point of No Return — TruthOut

May 23, 2016

Anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) has been speeding up with each passing year, Changes that normally occur over a matter of centuries are transpiring over decades. Read more.

Will Anyone Stand Up to Duke Energy? — NC WARN TV ad

May 23, 2016

Extreme weather is harming millions and approaching a chaotic tipping point. Charlotte-based Duke Energy is one of the nation’s largest climate polluters. We have a moral duty to demand a governor who is a leader – not just a politician. Watch our new TV ad!

Groups Ask Appeals Court to Step in, Overturn $10 Million Bond in Power Plant Fight — News Release from NC WARN

May 19, 2016

Today NC WARN and The Climate Times called for the NC Court of Appeals to immediately suspend regulators’ efforts to block our appeal of a Duke Energy power plant in Asheville. Last week, the NC Utilities Commissioners ordered us to post a $10 million bond before we can ask the Court of Appeals to overturn the Commission’s rubber-stamp approval of the plant.

Court Appeal of Church-Solar Test Case Ruling & Penalty Underway — News Release from NC WARN

May 17, 2016

NC WARN is moving the test case over our selling solar power to a Greensboro church to the courts, where we seek to overturn the NC Utilities Commission’s pro-Duke Energy ruling and a truly odd penalty it levied against us.

Ads Press Gubernatorial Candidates to Stand up to Duke Energy, Help Slow Climate Catastrophe — News Release from NC WARN

May 16, 2016

NC WARN is spending donations from its members to take straight to the statewide public the message that climate chaos is a hyper-urgent harm that demands a new kind of civic leadership, public debate and engagement.

Emergency Methane Action Campaign

May 8, 2016

Calling for a statewide ban on the import and use of fracked gas in North Carolina.

Stopping the methane spewing from the fracked gas system is vital to averting runaway climate change.

Take action now!

Watch press conference with
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II

NC WARN, Church Reply to Regulators in Solar Test Case — News Release from NC WARN

May 5, 2016

NC WARN today filed a notice with the NC Utilities Commission replying to its April 15 order in the test case over our sales of solar power to the Faith Community Church in Greensboro.

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