Climate Change
Duke Energy Promised to Limit Emissions at Four New Gas Plants. It’s Already Back-Tracking
NC’s biggest utility is among 10 companies that have written to Trump’s new EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, asking for relief from a key Biden emissions rule, as well as coal ash disposal requirements.
Environmental advocates in North Carolina are angry after 10 utilities and power companies, including Duke Energy, sent a letter Jan. 15 to Lee Zeldin, confirmed on Wednesday as EPA administrator, asking him to weaken environmental regulations over coal ash and natural gas.
Duke Energy Promised to Limit Emissions at Four New Gas Plants. It’s Already Back-Tracking