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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Duke Energy quits right-wing coal group
Posted By John Grooms on Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Here's some good news regarding Duke Energy. You can gripe all you want, and we do, about the Cliffside plant or the company’s plan to raise rates to pay for a new nuke plant, but give credit where it’s due.
The National Journal reports that Duke Energy quit the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity yesterday because of the group’s virulent opposition to efforts to reduce global warming. Duke spokespersons said Duke Energy left the ACCCE over differences with “influential member companies who will not support passing climate change legislation in 2009 or 2010.”
In a similar move, Duke Energy left the ultra-conservative National Association of Manufacturers in May. Good for them. Now, if Duke’s CEO Jim Rogers would just leave the national board of the Chamber of Commerce, which has turned increasingly right-wing and strongly opposes both health care reform and efforts to create clean energy jobs.
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