Chapelboro: Top Stories of 2024: Town of Carrboro Sues Duke Energy Over Climate Change Effects

To reflect on the year, Chapelboro.com is re-publishing some of the top stories that impacted and defined our community’s experience in 2024. These stories and topics affected Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the rest of our region.

At the start of December, The Carrboro Town Council came out of a closed session with the surprise announcement: they approved for the town to sue Duke Energy over the energy provider’s “extensive, unreasonable and unnecessary reliance upon fossil fuels in the conduct of its businesses,” claiming it is causing climate change to be “materially exacerbated.”