Carrboro reasserted its right Thursday to take Duke Energy to court over “deceptive business practices” that the town claims have exacerbated the local risks and costs of climate change.
Those alleged deceptions are the basis of a lawsuit the town filed in December, with help from two environmental nonprofits, the Center for Biological Diversity and NC WARN, which is paying the town’s legal costs.
On March 17, Duke Energy asked an N.C. Business Court judge to dismiss the case, claiming the town does not have the authority to sue and the courts do not have the jurisdiction to consider the claims.
The lawsuit made headlines as potentially the first time a municipality has sued an electric utility over alleged damages from “largely unabated” greenhouse gas emissions and the continued use of fossil fuels.
