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Greenies Try to Shakedown Duke Energy Ahead of Merger

September 15th, 2011 | Author:

The pending merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy into the nation’s largest utility seemed on a path to easy passage, but at the last minute, environmental activists intervened in the companies’ home state of North Carolina and sought payoffs via funding of their pet “clean” energy projects and weatherization boondoggles. ATI’s Paul Chesser explains at the National Legal and Policy Center blog.

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History and Founding Principles American Tradition Institute (ATI) is a public policy research and educational foundation - a "think tank" - founded in 2009 to help lead the national discussion about environmental issues, including air and water quality and regulation, responsible land use, natural resource management, energy development, property rights, and free-market principles of stewardship. American Tradition Institute utilizes a three-pronged strategy to advance responsible, economically sustainable environmental policy: Research, investigative journalism, and litigation, via our Environmental Law Center. Our combination of expert policy analysis, exposing truth, and redressing wrongs in court advances the cause of liberty, and will...

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