Climate protesters urge Gov. Stein to speak out against Duke Energy

Katie Bruno stood in a parking lot across the street from the North Carolina Executive Mansion Saturday holding a sign with a big color picture of Gov. Josh Stein surrounded by the words, “Be our Climate Champion.”

Bruno, a Duke University freshman, and about 85 others gathered in the parking lot to pressure Stein to speak out against Duke Energy and push the state’s monopoly utility to embrace renewable energy.

“Stop Duke Energy, wrecking our planet,” the crowd chanted between speakers and then as they walked around the governor’s mansion…

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