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November 17, 2011 - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants to stick the region's ratepayers with the bill for reactor design changes necessitated by the Japanese disaster -- but a coalition of nuclear watchdogs is trying to prevent that from happening.

October 13, 2011 - A recent United Nations report found that 80 percent of the world's energy needs could be met with renewable sources by 2050. So why are the Southeast's big electric utilities doing so little to make the transition to clean energy despite the worsening climate crisis?

September 19, 2011 - The N.C. Utilities Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 20 about the proposed merger of Progress Energy and Duke Energy to form the nation's largest electric utility, which would operate under the Duke Energy name. The hearing represents the public's last chance to weigh in on the plan. If the merger is approved, the company would become the largest U.S. utility, worth over $35 billion and with more than 7 million customers in the Carolinas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

March 16, 2011 - With the nuclear crisis in Japan growing more alarming by the hour, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers

February 3, 2010 - Duke Energy's permits to release pollution from three coal-burning power plants in the Charlotte area expire early this year, and for the first time the North Carolina Division of Water Quality will require the company to test groundwater near the facilities' coal ash ponds.

December 4, 2009 - The public does not have access to information about more than 70 coal ash

December 2, 2009 - A new report from Environment America finds that the nation's power plants are dirty as well as old -- and that those two characteristics tend to go hand in hand.