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.
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.
A bill introduced in the NC Houe would protect farmers from financial discrimination based on ESG.
Experts suggest the US far outpaces other countries in reducing emissions, even without Paris Agreement.
NC should limit public pensions using ESG criteria in their investment decisions, deny new contracts between state entities and financial institutions that use ESG criteria, and lobby Congress for federal reforms limiting ESG’s impact.
Editor’s Note: This piece is adapted from a column that first appeared in the American Institute for Economic Research. IMPOVERISHING US IS NOT THE SOLUTION The Biden administration’s term of choice for the ridiculously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is “historic.” One reason is its “climate change” promises. The monetary costs alone are enormous, which is strangely a point of...
There’s still a lot of controversy surrounding nuclear energy here in the United States. People often fail to realize that nuclear energy is a zero-emission, clean energy source. I recently had the opportunity to visit the Burlington Nuclear Engineering Laboratory to learn more about the production of nuclear energy, and it’s clear to me that,...
North Carolina has better options than wind and solar, if it wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Nearly half a million North Carolinians work in food processing plants. These workers rely on this sector to put food on their table, pay their mortgages, and secure a better future for their families; and these opportunities, along with the economic success of the state, are coming under fire as the Biden administration plans to...
We’ve been able to make the switch from coal to gas without burdening power customers because the fracking revolution made it economical to drill for and recover large amounts of natural gas.
Once again, a group of influential green groups and corporations are promoting a global climate strike. Today’s strike pushes young students to walk out of school and workers to leave work to protest the energy sources that keep us alive and thriving. Stunts like these may serve to raise awareness about the global climate, but...
