North Carolina Judge Dismisses Town’s Climate Change Suit Against Duke Energy

( February 23, 2026, 9:07 AM EST) -- HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A special superior court judge in North Carolina ruled that Duke Energy cannot be held liable for damages from extreme weather events that allegedly derived from climate change in dismissing a lawsuit filed by a municipality accusing the company of sharing misleading information about the negative effects of fossil fuel consumption on the environment and causing delayed transition to alternative forms of fuel....