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Duke Energy customers in North Carolina have been shocked by recent high electric bills, and some are even petitioning for an audit. The company blames cold weather for recent bill spikes, but our analysis shows Duke’s rate increases are also to blame.

Three North Carolina Democratic state House members who crossed the aisle to cast key votes to override Gov. Josh Stein's veto of a controversial Duke Energy-backed utility bill were rejected by voters in their own party's primaries this month — after receiving the maximum $10,000 campaign contributions from the utility.

Nevada gas utility Southwest Gas (SWG) has not provided sufficient information or analysis in its inaugural long-term resource plan to ensure the utility is proposing the most cost-effective options for its customers, Nevada advocates and state officials are saying. Intervenors who are critical of the resource plan include Nevada’s Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) and...

Peoples Gas, the Chicago-based gas utility, has settled a discrimination lawsuit alleging that it engaged in systemic race discrimination against Black employees and customers through fostering a hostile work environment, discriminatory job and territory assignment, discriminatory overtime and pay, discriminatory performance and discipline practices, and retaliation. Eleven former and current employees of the gas utility...