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    Nation’s Largest Utility Wants Customers to Pay for Coal Ash Cleanup

    Nation’s Largest Utility Wants Customers to Pay for Coal Ash Cleanup

    Duke Energy—the nation’s largest electric company—is being criticized for trying to pass along its coal ash cleanup efforts to customers in the form of rate hikes. The Associated Press reports that this is the first time the $59 billion electricity company has sought permission to have North Carolina consumers pay part of its costs of […]

    Dangerous Metals Found in Latest Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill

    Dangerous Metals Found in Latest Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill

    The record-breaking flood of the Neuse River inundated three inactive coal ash ponds for five days last week from the Duke Energy H.F. Lee facility, 10 miles upstream of Goldsboro, North Carolina. The flooded ponds are unlined and uncovered, containing more than 1 million tons of coal ash spread over more than 170 acres in […]

    Coal Ash Continues to Spill Into River, Where Is Duke Energy?

    Coal Ash Continues to Spill Into River, Where Is Duke Energy?

    Waterkeeper Alliance and Sound Rivers have discovered a large coal ash spill into the Neuse River from the Duke Energy H.F. Lee facility, 10 miles upstream of Goldsboro, North Carolina. A substantial but undetermined amount of coal ash was found floating on the surface of the river in a layer over one inch thick. See […]

    Duke Energy Cooling Pond Dam Collapses in Wake of Hurricane Matthew Flooding

    Duke Energy Cooling Pond Dam Collapses in Wake of Hurricane Matthew Flooding

    [This breaking news is an update to a post earlier today on EcoWatch: Millions of Chickens Feared Dead at Factory Farms in Wake of Hurricane Matthew] Waterkeeper Alliance and Upper Neuse Riverkeeper are responding to and documenting the breach of a 1.2-billion-gallon cooling pond dam at Duke Energy’s H.F. Lee plant. The breach occurred today […]

    Here’s What 7.8 Billion Gallons of Toxic Coal Sludge Looks Like

    Here’s What 7.8 Billion Gallons of Toxic Coal Sludge Looks Like

    By Heather Moyer This is part 2 (read part 1) on my visit to see mountaintop removal coal mining sites in West Virginia with Coal River Mountain Watch. Junior Walk and I are standing where a mountain used to be. We’re on a pile of rocks surrounded by even more piles of rocks and boulders. […]