Despite spending more than a decade lobbying for oil and natural gas companies, Whatley’s U.S. Senate campaign website mainly showcases a career in public service.
“Every candidate on this year’s Dirty Dozen has a record, a vote, a lobbying history, or a policy position that is helping drive up the electricity and heating bills their own constituents pay, whether through blocking or repealing clean energy projects, providing handouts to dirtier and more expensive fuels like oil, coal and gas, or embracing costly data center buildouts without protecting ratepayers from the bill or the pollution.”
“Reliable electricity is essential, but it also must be affordable. We cannot continue placing higher costs on working families who are already struggling to make ends meet,” said NC Rep. Rodney Pierce.
As North Carolinians and advocates push back against big polluters, judicial experts and state leaders have raised concerns about the conservative-leaning high court.
For decades, communities along the Cape Fear River have dealt with the consequences of PFAS contamination linked to Chemours. Now, the company at the center of that pollution is also helping fund Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley’s campaign.
As Duke Energy asks North Carolina families to pay even more for electricity, advocates and elected leaders gathered outside the North Carolina Utilities Commission last week to call for lower rates and greater accountability from the utility giant.
“We are not joining this deal, and we will keep pushing for lower rates… we shouldn’t be subsidizing those data centers,” said AG Jeff Jackson.
Since the storm, 98% of damaged water systems have been restored, helping thousands of families regain access to safe drinking water.
NCGOP Sen. Michael Lee of New Hanover County has spent the last decade-plus publicly portraying himself as a moderate while quietly and devastatingly voting against the interests of North Carolinians time after time.
This is the fourth payout by the Trump administration to halt offshore wind development and cancel leases in a push to replace renewable energy projects with fossil fuel and nuclear power.