Several major power companies have cancelled their membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the business group's position on global warming, but North Carolina's electric utilities are not planning to sever their relationship with the organization.
Raleigh-based Progress Energy and Charlotte-based Duke Energy say they have long, productive relationships with the national chamber.
In recent weeks, power companies that have quit the chamber include Excelon, one of the country's biggest electric utilities, as well as Pacific Gas & Electric in California. They quit over the chamber's resistance to climate change legislation that would impose additional costs on some businesses.