Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 6/17/21

 Gov. Roy Cooper expressed serious concerns with a major new energy policy Thursday, taking the rare step of issuing a formal statement before the bill even had its first public hearing in the legislature. The nearly 50-page bill, crafted over the last few months by Duke Energy, representatives from the renewable energy industry, major electricity customers and House Republicans, would set nearly a decade's worth of state energy policy.

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