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Submitted by Cassady Sharp
April 30, 2013
Google pressures largest US utility company to put renewable energy on the menu

Thanks to some pressure from Google, the largest utility company in the U.S., Duke Energy, now plans to offer renewable energy to its major customers.  This will allow Google, who also announced plans today to double the size of one if its largest data centers, an option to power its cloud with clean energy.

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Submitted by Ivy Schlegel
April 23, 2013
Don't Drink the Water

In 2008, a coal ash impoundment at TVA Kingston Fossil Fuel Power Plant failed. Five times the volume of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, the coal ash spill was the worst in US history. In 2009, the EPA, overseeing the clean-up operations, began shipping the 4 million tons of toxic coal ash –by rail to a landfill a region in Alabama known as the Black Belt.

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Submitted by Kelly Mitchell
April 11, 2013
Sally Jewell can end the Department of Interior’s coal industry giveaways

As the new Secretary of the Interior, Secretary Sally Jewel has an important opportunity to end the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) giveaways to the coal industry, which are unlocking enormous amounts of carbon pollution, wasting taxpayer dollars, and subsidizing the coal industry’s efforts to export pu

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Submitted by Monica Embrey
April 1, 2013
Two North Carolina coal plants turn off today, ending a century of pollution

This is no April fool’s joke. Today, two of Duke Energy’s dirty, outdated coal plants – Riverbend and Buck, in North Carolina – are officially turning off.

Duke Energy is the county’s largest electric utility, and until today operated 14 coal fired power plants in its home state of North Carolina. But because of the organizing efforts of everyday North Carolinians, two of those coal plants have been shut down before Duke had otherwise planned.

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Submitted by Edyta Sitko
March 4, 2013
Why I'm fighting the Keystone XL from Chicago

Written by Sera Sousley. Sera has been volunteering with Greenpeace and the Chicago Clean Power Coalition for almost 2 years. She is working towards a second Bachelors, studying Sustainability at Roosevelt University.

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Submitted by Monica Embrey
February 25, 2013
Testify at a Public Hearing Against a Dirty & Expensive Duke Plan

This week Charlotte area residents will have the chance to voice their concerns about Duke Energy’s long term business plan to the NC Utilities Commission. This plan will have serious ramifications for people and our planet as it doubles down investments in dirty coal and dangerous nuclear energy, and passes the costs on to North Carolina rate payers. Duke plans on powering North Carolina on just 2.25% renewable energy by 2032. This isn't the leadership we need from the nation's largest energy utility.

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