An Orange County town seeks to unravel North Carolina’s utilities regulation system with its climate lawsuit against Duke Energy. That’s the key point in Duke’s latest state Business Court filing in its legal battle with Carrboro.
Duke Energy has filed a second motion to dismiss the lawsuit Carrboro filed against Duke in a dispute involving climate change. The town seeks money damages for the alleged negative impact of Duke Energy's climate policies on town finances.
Carrboro is defending its lawsuit against Duke Energy this week in North Carolina Business Court. The Orange County town seeks money from Duke related to the utility’s asserted impact on climate change.
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Duke Energy is asking the North Carolina Business Court to dismiss Carrboro’s lawsuit blaming the utility company for its role in promoting climate change. "Carrboro is, respectfully, outside its lane," Duke Energy's lawyers wrote in a brief filed Monday.
Duke Energy wants North Carolina’s Business Court to hear a lawsuit the town of Carrboro filed against the utility company over its approach toward climate change. Duke labels Carrboro’s claims “unprecedented and ahistoric” in a court document filed Monday.
Environmental groups have, surprisingly, been opposed to the shift to nuclear energy, citing higher infrastructure costs while downplaying its reduced carbon emissions.
Critics say the lawsuit against Duke Energy is just more political theater. The Carrboro town council alleges the utility misled the public about fossil fuel emissions and the timeline for renewable energy adoption.
Just a few months away from leaving office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has ramped up his calls for increased spending on K-12 public schools and doubled down on his campaign to vilify the state’s school choice voucher program. In a statement on Aug. 20, Cooper said that public schools are where the majority of...
If you’ve been on a North Carolina college campus in recent days, you likely heard chants like “Israel is a terrorist state,” “from the river to the sea,” “How many kids did you kill today?,” intifada revolution,” “glory to the martyrs,” “queers for Palestine,” and other provocative and ignorant slogans. These protesters chant while waving...
Legal experts are cautioning of the potential ‘chaos’ that could come from disregarding state laws.
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