All posts by Sue Sturgis

Utilities Quietly Walk Back Commitments to Diverse Hiring, Social Justice

After spending the past half-decade scaling up efforts to diversify their workforces and suppliers as well as making and touting donations to social justice organizations, corporate utilities across the U.S....

/ April 30, 2025
Pile of money

Utility CEOs get raises as companies roll back diversity, environmental pay incentives and rates increase

In 2024, investor-owned utilities paid their chief executive officers a total of over $530 million, according to an analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute based on the latest proxy...

/ April 23, 2025
Duke Energy's Sutton Gas Plant

Duke Energy utilities long knew of climate change risks before joining denial campaigns

The utility companies that comprise today’s Duke Energy Corporation were privy to early warnings about climate change in the 1970s, well before the phenomenon emerged as a major public issue...

/ November 21, 2024
Belews Creek Steam Station

Duke Energy funded climate science-denying John Locke Foundation

Duke Energy contributed $25,000 to the John Locke Foundation (JLF), a leading voice of climate science denial and renewable energy rejectionism in North Carolina. The contribution, which occurred in 2021...

/ October 15, 2024