Source: Axios Raleigh
Carrboro town officials filed a lawsuit against Charlotte-based Duke Energy Wednesday morning, accusing the company — one of the country’s largest operators of coal and natural gas power plants — of leading a “nationwide climate deception scheme” that has worsened the climate crisis and cost the town millions.
Why it matters: Electric utilities like Duke are key in the transition to cleaner energy, the New York Times reports.
- Duke itself is the third largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the country, according to the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index, though it’s vowed to shrink emissions.
