Yesterday, we reported that the Western North Carolina Alliance and the Sierra Club were on the verge of getting their collective wrist slapped for falsely signing businesses on to a letter asking Duke Energy to kindly shut down its Lake Julian power plant. Operating since 1964, the largest (324 Mw) electrical plant in Western North Carolina is somewhat of an institution for, say, keeping people safe and warm in temperatures we have recently been able live to tell about. That was yesterday.

Today, we read that the WNCA is merging with the Environmental and Conservation Organization and the Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance to form an organization with the name . . .

. . . MountainTrue.