# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-09-26T14:47:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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The Town of Carrboro presented its legal rationale for continuing a 2024 lawsuit against Duke Energy on Thursday, laying out its standing for suing over damage suffered to the town’s infrastructure caused by climate change, about which Carrboro contends the utility company deceived the public.

Deliberations over whether to approve Duke Energy’s motion to dismiss the case took place across five hours in the Wake County Courthouse, with the town and energy corporation’s representation running the legal qualifications and validity of their arguments by Judge Mark A. Davis of North Carolina’s Business Court.

The civil lawsuit, which was filed last December, focuses on Duke Energy’s efforts to promote fossil fuel energy options while downplaying the impact on climate change and convincing the public fossil fuels were safer than alternative energy options. Attorney Matt Quinn, who is representing the local government, said such efforts — ranging from funding anti-renewable propaganda to deliberately transitioning from fossil fuels at a slow rate — caused “material changes” in people’s preference of fossil fuels for energy and personal use. The town is seeking financial damages for property damage suffered in extreme weather, which it claims has gotten worse and more frequent as a result of climate change.

The case is one of the first of its kind, where a public entity like a government seeks to use common tort law to receive damages from an energy company or utility — and, concurrently, hold a large-scale polluter publicly accountable for their contributions to global warming through carbon emissions. As such, Thursday’s hearing featured Judge Davis asking detailed questions to understand both parties’ arguments through the lens of legal standing, whether the case could be pre-empted by federal laws and if it should be dismissed over a political nature.

Full story on Chapelboro.com.
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