Duke Energy Corporation

Duke Energy writes off $10-million loan for Democratic convention

2013-02-13 15:36:00

WASHINGTON — Duke Energy has already written off a $10-million line of credit the company guaranteed to help produce September’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., boosting the role of corporate funds in putting on the event....

Obama will accept corporate cash to pay for inauguration

2012-12-07 11:31:00

President Obama will accept corporate contributions to pay for his inauguration in January, a departure from his first inauguration and the 2012 Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C. The decision, first reported by Politico, underscores how the...

CEO-for-a-day parachutes out of Duke Energy with $44 million

2012-07-06 10:18:00

For one day’s work, $44 million is a pretty sizable paycheck. For a few hours this week, William D. Johnson served as chief executive of Duke Energy Corp.�before resigning. His departure package could include $7.4 million in severance, relocation...

Democrats give special interests a role at convention

2012-04-05 21:04:00

WASHINGTON — As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama vowed to squelch the role of special interests in financing the party conventions — so he barred corporations and lobbyists from contributing money to this year's national convention in...

Time to tax carbon

2007-05-28 00:00:00

IF YOU HAVE KIDS, take them to the beach. They should enjoy it while it lasts, because there's a chance that within their lifetimes California's beaches will vanish under the waves. Global warming will redraw the maps of the world. The U.N.'s...

Carbon trading won't work

2007-04-01 00:00:00

Economists, some environmentalists and a growing gaggle of politicians are pushing a grand strategy that a market mechanism — known as "carbon cap and trade" — can rescue us fastest from a climate catastrophe. But early evidence suggests...

Getting on a low-carbon diet

2007-05-11 00:00:00

President Bush will probably succeed in blocking any serious effort to combat global warming until he leaves office. But for the next president, the question will be how, not whether, to reduce American emissions of carbon dioxide and the other gases...

Gifts Flow, as Does the Access

2004-11-07 00:00:00

SACRAMENTO — When Richard Costigan resigned as lobbyist for the Chamber of Commerce last November, the business group chipped in for a $589 farewell gift, a wood-and-glass model of the domed Capitol where Costigan went to work for Arnold...

NRC launches special inspection of NC nuclear plant shut down after cracking discovered

2013-05-22 07:00:55

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal regulators said Wednesday that they are conducting a special inspection of a nuclear power plant outside North Carolina's capital city that was forced to shut down last week after operators discovered corrosion and...

Weather: Storms to continue this evening in Metro Orlando

2013-05-20 16:15:36

Storms that have been roaring through Central Florida will continue for another couple of hours, the National Weather Service in Melbourne said. Orlando, Volusia County and Lake County will continue to see rain, forecasters said. The worst of the...

Charlotte, NC, celebrates 1963 'eat-in' that desegregated restaurants, set example for South

2013-05-19 14:36:17

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown. Dr. Reginald Hawkins warned city...

Big questions await Charlotte's next mayor

2013-05-19 00:00:00

When voters elect a new Charlotte mayor this fall, they will be handing him or her a long list of tough questions to confront. How do you build consensus in an increasingly diverse community that tends to segregate by race and income? How do you...

Duke Energy, which serves more than 600,000 customers in the Orlando area, has charged customers more than $1 billion to expand its Crystal River nuclear plant, which is now crippled and will be shut down permanently.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

A Duke Energy worker repairs a line after a storm. The company has written off a $10-million line of credit it guaranteed to help produce the Democratic National Convention.

2013-02-13 15:51:57

Duke Energy's Plant Allen in Belmont, N.C. The company's merger with Progress Energy came with a twisty executive switch.

2012-07-06 10:36:00