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Our story: How the fight to ban DDT led to the birth of EDF

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AI and rising electricity costs: What you should know

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Sagar Sane
Chair
Senior Consultant, Eleveya Public Affairs

Ethan Blumenthal
Chairman and CEO, Good Solar

Thomas F. Darden, II, JD, MRP
CEO, Cherokee Investment Partners

Kathryn Heath, Ph.D.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Flynn Health Holt Leadership

Pam Hemminger
Former Mayor of Chapel Hill

Olivia B. Holding
President, EF Properties, Inc.; President, Ella Ann L. & Frank B. Holding Foundation

David M. Jones, DVM
Former Director, North Carolina Zoological Park

Frank E. Navarro
Managing Principal, Navarro Lowrey, Inc.

Tom Okel
Director, Barings Capital Investment Corporation

Shannon O’Shea
Director of Strategic Initiatives & Director of Energy & Resilience Lending for Carolina Community Impact

Jane Preyer
Former Director, NC EDF Office

Elizabeth Sasser
Lecturer, University of North Carolina