The bill "walks back our state's commitment to reduce carbon emissions, sending the wrong signal to businesses that want to be a part of our clean energy economy," Gov. Josh Stein said.

The new memo from N.C. State professors says the fuel costs to power new natural gas plants could be a key price driver for Duke Energy customers in the coming decades.

Gov. Josh Stein vetoed a bipartisan energy bill he says would have made the state overly reliant on natural gas. He didn’t believe the claims that the bill would save customers money on their power bills in the long run.