ThinkProgress: Powerful interests are facing off on the future of renewable energy in North Carolina.
A bill to freeze the state`s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) - a mandate on how much clean energy utilities have to use - was shoved through committee last month, but despite a wide Republican majority (34-16), the bill hasn`t been brought to the Senate floor. Similar legislation has been introduced and shot down in past years.
Environmental and business groups fighting the bill say that reintroducing...