Fwd: NC WARN Campaign sign on

[Lauren Nyland]

Hello,   I am writing to encourage Orange County Commissioners to sign on to the letter organized by the environmental group, NC WARN, to urge Governor Stein to take action to transition Duke Energy off of fossil fuels and onto solar and wind energy. This campaign seems like it could be of interest to you. The campaign is asking individuals and businesses to participate.  More than 280 businesses and nonprofit groups,  have joined 61 prominent climate scientists in pressing North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein to challenge Duke Energy’s huge expansion of fossil fuels and suppression of renewable power.  All these voices led Stein to take a couple of modest first steps by criticizing Duke Energy Help us to keep moving the Governor and get North Carolina on the right track! Ways to help: 1. Individuals: Send Governor Stein an email at StopDukeEnergy.com. 2. Organizations and Businesses: NC WARN has finalized its sign-on resolution for businesses, organizations, and elected officials, and is currently seeking signatures, with the goal of getting 500 by the end of February. The resolution and information is below. We're using this growing pressure to urge Governor Josh Stein to become a national climate champion by using every tool available to him, including leading the installation of solar and battery storage on emergency facilities and requiring them on data centers. 3. Help us expand this campaign by sharing this message! If you know of any other individuals or groups that could sign on, please share this email.  4. We are also hosting screenings of the film, The True Cost of Power: Duke Energy's Climate Deception. If there are any groups that would like to host, please let me or NC WARN know. The film is also available for viewing on Youtube and on the StopDukeEnergy.com website. Please let me know if you have any questions- Thank you, Lauren Nyland

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From: NC WARN <ncw...@ncwarn.org>
Date: Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Subject: SIGN ON RESOLUTION: Tell Governor to Stop Duke Energy's Climate Deception
To: Gabriela Paterson <gabr...@ncwarn.org>

Businesses, organizations and elected officials are encouraged to join the call for Gov. Stein to stop Duke Energy's worsening climate record! ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Organizations, Businesses and Elected Officials: Urge Gov. Stein to stop Duke Energy's Climate Deception! We encourage organizations, businesses, and former and current elected officials to sign the resolution below and join the call from 262 groups,* 61 scientists and thousands of individuals urging NC Governor Josh Stein to challenge Duke Energy’s worsening climate record. Thank you! The NC WARN Team Join the call! Help us reach 500 signatures by the end of February! Sign the resolution here. *If your business or organization already signed our earlier letter to Gov. Stein, there's no need to sign again. Please continue to share with your network and elected officials! Resolution for North Carolina Governor Josh Stein to Stop Duke Energy’s Expansion of Fossil Fuels and Suppression of Climate Solutions By Businesses, Organizations and Elected Officials WHEREAS, prominent climatologist James Hansen reported in November 2025 that failures at the national and global level to address the urgent climate crisis have rendered it “implausible” to keep global warming under a critical threshold of 2 degrees Celsius; and  WHEREAS, the climate emergency is already heavily impacting North Carolinians, especially those most vulnerable, through worsening storms, heat waves, catastrophic flooding events and economic hardship, and is predicted to continue accelerating; and WHEREAS, the state is headquarters to Duke Energy, one of the world’s largest climate polluters, which plans to build more gas-fired power generation than any other US corporation; and  WHEREAS, Duke Energy is also proposing to attempt to build more dangerous, failure-prone, and experimental nuclear plants than any other US corporation, which, along with the gas expansion, would likely triple most customers’ power bills; and  WHEREAS, Duke Energy continues to suppress feasible and inexpensive climate solutions such as solar power paired with batteries, while much of the world is rapidly developing renewable energy; and WHEREAS, globally-prominent climate scientist Dr. Drew Shindell has urged NC Governor Josh Stein that “it is really an emergency that we change course as quickly as possible. … We really need to use all the levers we can to push Duke Energy away from this fossil fuel path;” and WHEREAS, the Town of Carrboro is suing Duke Energy Corporation, charging that its top executives have helped lead a nationwide conspiracy of climate deception for decades; and WHEREAS, Governor Stein should match Carrboro’s courage by breaking through the deception and helping the public understand that North Carolina is on the wrong course, and that Duke Energy must finally begin a genuine transition to clean energy if this state is ever going to help slow the climate crisis;  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we, the undersigned, urge NC Governor Josh Stein to become a national climate champion by using every tool available to him to persuade or require Duke Energy executives to phase out deadly and dangerous fuel sources and transition to affordable, resilient, and renewable energy. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we urge Governor Stein, as an initial step, to lead the installation of solar and batteries to make critical public facilities resilient during outages, and further require data centers to include maximum on-site renewables and battery storage to provide their own clean power when investing in new facilities. This resolution was drafted and circulated by NC WARN and revised on January 27, 2026. Read the full resolution with footnotes linked here. Sign on here! ### Now in its 38th year, NC WARN is building people power in the climate and energy justice movement to persuade or require Charlotte-based Duke Energy – one of the world’s largest climate polluters – to make a quick transition to renewable, affordable power generation and energy efficiency in order to avert climate tipping points and ongoing rate hikes.  Please support NC WARN's climate and energy justice work! CONNECT WITH US NC WARN PO Box 61051  Durham, NC 27715 (919) 416-5077 | ncw...@ncwarn.org Unsubscribe or Manage Your Preferences