Legislative Watch: For Dirty Energy, Money Shouts
If the old cliché says that “money talks,” for dirty energy in the current North Carolina General Assembly, fast cash was shouting last year.
Analysis by environmental reporter Lisa Sorg shows that Dominion Energy (a key backer of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline) poured generous contributions into the campaign coffers of legislators considering anti-environmental legislation that would boost the pipeline’s legal position. Most of the cash flooded in within 10 days of a key vote on overriding Gov. Cooper’s veto of the bill.
Read the dirty details here.
