For more than 80 years, the Thomas family has lived on a farm that abuts three open-air pits containing 6.1 million tons of ash from the coal-fired boilers of Duke Energy’s Buck Steam Station. Built ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Power producers' coal ash disposal ponds like the one that leaked toxic sludge into a North Carolina river in February may soon become a thing of the past. After six years of ...
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources revealed details Thursday on the cleanup of the coal ash ponds across the state. Coal ash has been a hot topic for ...
ROXBORO (WTVD) -- Phyllis Jeffers lives right down the street from one of Duke Energy's coal plants. She also has well water, but says it is water she hasn't been able to drink for about a year. She ...
RALEIGH, N.C., June 25 (Reuters) - North Carolina's state Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill calling for the closure of Duke Energy's 33 coal ash ponds in the state within 15 years, ...
The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources has expanded its civil environmental action against ash ponds operated by Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress to include violations ...
"It's clear to me that what we have here in all of our coal ash ponds is a flawed design, compounded by flawed regulation and flawed enforcement," said Sen. Mike Woodard, D-Durham, who represents ...
Over the weekend at an old power plant in Eden, N.C., a stormwater pipe that goes under a coal ash pond broke, sending about 82,000 tons of ash into the Dan River. The river stretches more than 200 ...
RALEIGH – Duke Energy on Tuesday gave a panel of state lawmakers here a range of estimates on what it would cost and how much time it would take to stop its 14 coal-fired power plant sites from ...
State officials will decide soon whether to proceed with a controversial settlement with Duke Energy Carolinas involving contamination of a Charlotte reservoir. N.C. environmental officials say they ...
For the second time this month, North Carolina officials have ordered Duke Energy to stem a leak of toxic water coming from beneath a coal ash dump in a decommissioned power plant. Authorities fear ...
(AP) The sweet tea served in the tidy kitchen of Joanne Thomas’ antebellum home comes with an ominous warning. “It’s made with bottled water,” says Thomas, a spry 71-year-old. “But the ice comes from ...
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