Dive Summary:

• Duke CEO Jim Rogers will hold his last shareholders meeting Thursday before retiring later this year. But Greenpeace activists have gathered in protest to battle the leader’s environmental legacy.
• “Jim Rogers has seven months to determine how history will remember his eight years as the CEO of one of the world’s largest electric utilities: a leader who helped start a clean energy revolution, or a laggard who talked about global warming but never acted to stop it,” a full-page Greenpeace ad in the Charlotte Observer stated May 1.
• Rogers will address some of these issues and highlight achievements such as Duke Energy’s $2.5 billion investment in wind and solar since 2007.

From the article:
“In his speech, Rogers is set to say, ‘By 2015, we expect to reduce our regulated generation fleet’s emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides by about 90 percent and 80 percent, respectively, from 2005 levels.’”