Also published in The News & Observer.
Deep in tobacco country, a North Carolina town is seeking to expose a scandal it says is far broader than the corporate cover-up of the link between cigarette smoking and cancer.
In a lawsuit filed this week in Orange County Superior Court, the town of Carrboro claims that Duke Energy – one of the nation’s largest electric utilities with a near monopoly in North Carolina – ignored evidence that greenhouse gas emissions were contributing to climate change in order to reap higher profits from burning fossil fuels.
