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 …
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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 …
Rubber-stamping Regulator Approves Duke Energy’s PRO-Carbon Plan — NC WARN News Release
Anti-science NC Utilities Commission tragically sides with Duke as usual The utilities commission gave Duke essentially everything it wanted – as usual – in its order issued late Friday. They’re expanding fossil fuels and suppressing renewables – exactly backward from the demands of climate scientists. Duke and the commission seem …
NC WARN Presses Duke CEO to Personally Lead Shift of Fossil Fuel Industry in Face of Stunning New Climate Science — NC WARN News Release
Helene’s Grid Destruction Amplifies Need for Distributed Power With Storage — NC WARN News Release
Thousands of downed power poles, towers highlight the vulnerability of our electric grid and the need to stop expanding fossil fuels The people of NC WARN are deeply saddened by the unprecedented suffering across states devastated by Hurricane Helene. We applaud the courageous dedication of utility workers, FEMA and all …
NC Court of Appeals Upholds Duke Energy Attack on Rooftop Solar — News Release from NC WARN & EWG
Despite calling pro-Duke Energy regulators’ interpretation of the law ‘absurd’, appeals judges give Utilities Commission OK to accept Duke’s biased cost calculations A state appeals court panel today rejected claims that regulators violated state law when allowing Duke Energy to downgrade the economic benefits for owners of rooftop solar. The …
Duke Officials Admit “High Risk” of Key Carbon Plan Element — NC WARN News Release
“Extremely difficult” to build billions in new power lines and towers through eastern NC; “so much opposition” can mean “you can’t get it done” Duke Energy’s 2022 promise to investors (see footnote 5) that it will pour $75 billion into high-voltage transmission projects in its monopoly states was belied recently …