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Duke’s Boardroom Battles Risk $32 Billion Merger Deal

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Duke Energy President and CEO Jim Rogers (3rd L) testifies with (L-R) Alcoa Inc. Global Issues Director Meg McDonald, Natural Resources Defense Council President Frances Beinecke and ConocoPhillips Senior Vice President Red Cavaney before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill April 22, 2009 in Washington, DC.

July 2 was not supposed to be an ordinary day for Bill Johnson, the former chief executive of Progress Energy. But it ended in an extraordinary way that even he hadn’t expected. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 26, 2012 at 8:30 AM

More Than Meets The Eye In Cleantech Funding

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Sometimes the numbers fail to tell the whole story.

According to a recent Ernst & Young LLP analysis based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource, US venture investment in clean technology companies has decreased by 44% over the past year to $1.1 billion. But overall investments may not accurately depict the future of the maturing cleantech market, the study implies. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM