Fighting Duke’s Dirty Rate Hikes Bill
Citizens continue to fight hard against legislation which would make it…
Cooper Appoints Utilities Commissioners
Gov. Roy Cooper nominated three new members of the North Carolina Utilities Commission last week. If they win legislative confirmation, the commission could take a more skeptical look at future Duke Energy rate hike requests. The three nominees would replace sitting commissioners whose terms are expiring and who have been criticized as too quick to […]
Crossover Crunch Time
This is the time of year when bad ideas that have been lurking in…
Duke Wants More Rate Hikes Faster
Duke Energy wants to fast-track its rate hikes and cut public oversight out…
Duke Doesn’t Dig Cleanup Order
Is anyone surprised? Duke Energy says it will appeal the Roy Cooper Administration’s order to move all its coal ash to lined landfills to keep it from seeping into groundwater. Duke said last week that it will file an administrative appeal of the Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) order that it dig up all the […]
Dig It Up … Dig It All Up
Enough stalling and half-measures: The Cooper Administration says it’s…
Statement on Gov. Cooper’s Order that Duke Energy Excavate All Remaining Coal Ash
We are thrilled that Gov. Cooper has sided with North Carolinians who for…
Duke Wants Customers to Pay for Failed Nukes
Why should customers foot the bill for Duke Energy’s repeated nuclear mistake in upstate South Carolina? In the 1970s and 1980s, the nuclear-obsessed utility tried to push the then-named Cherokee Nuclear Station in Cherokee County, SC. But with electric demand growth falling, and North Carolina law and regulators reasserting control over wasted capital expenditures, Duke […]
Legislative Watch: Protect Clean Streams and Clean Energy
Legislative Watch: Protect Clean Streams and Clean Energy The same bad bills are back again, pushing for less clean energy and more destroyed streams. We can’t afford to ignore these renewed threats to our clean air and water. First, the old cliché of “regulatory reform” is trotted out again in the Senate. As we all […]
Education & Resources: The Economics of Small Rooftop Solar
Why is Duke Energy fighting a small Greensboro church over rooftop solar?
