State regulators hosted two public hearings on Duke Energy’s proposal to merge its two Carolina companies into one entity, Duke Energy Carolinas. Tuesday night, two members of the public weighed in on the combination.

When Hurricane Helene flooded the town of Black Mountain, community members were stranded. The resulting blackouts meant residents couldn’t call for help. But one group of volunteers is resurrecting an old technology to face a new generation of storms.

The Southern Environmental Law Center plans to bring an upcoming Duke Energy program before the North Carolina Court of Appeals. The program, called Clean Energy Impact, is supposed to allow companies and individuals to buy energy certificates to support North Carolina’s clean energy transition.

The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight.

Duke plans to increase carbon pollution during the next decade before emissions sharply decline near the end of the 2030s.