Mayor Robinson believes that small towns have more ability than big cities to be nimble, and are thus the best places to test and refine new clean energy models, just as Enfield has been doing.
According to the report, “Duke Energy fails across all three scoring categories; it is keeping coal online, planning a massive buildout of new gas capacity, and not building nearly enough clean energy. At the same time, it is backtracking on emissions reductions commitments and proposing new rate hikes.”
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.