Welcome to Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. On today's episode, we talk with state Sen. Paul Newton, a Republican from Cabarrus County who was one of the lead sponsors of a sweeping bipartisan energy bill. House Bill 951 was signed into law recently and would give Duke Energy and other electric providers the ability to propose multi-year rate hikes, while setting in motion a plan to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by the year 2030, and reach full “carbon neutrality” by 2050. We also talked with Newton about the redistricting process and his time as an executive at Duke Energy.