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        May 31, 2013 -
        
  
        With a fast-growing number of U.S. residents installing solar panels on their homes and businesses, utilities worried about their bottom line are jumping into the distributed solar power market -- even in the coal-dependent South.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        February 18, 2013 -
        
  
        A nonprofit that paid for Republican consultants to draw new congressional district maps for North Carolina -- a gerrymander that helped flip the state's delegation to the GOP -- got most of its original funding from big corporations including Exxon, Pfizer and Time Warner.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        February 6, 2013 -
        
  
        Conservative mega-donor Art Pope has helped finance a movement to discredit mainstream climate science. Now North Carolina's budget director, he will help make important fiscal decisions for a state facing serious threats from climate change.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        October 16, 2012 -
        
  
        Defend My Dividend calls itself a grassroots campaign to halt a dividend tax hike. But the group's ad buys are linked to trade groups for utilities and other dividend-paying companies.