RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s attorney general on April 25 challenged regulators for allowing Duke Energy to start charging consumers hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up coal ash dumps and add a potential profit margin. State Attorney General Josh Stein’s ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court should keep alive a five-year-old lawsuit because it increases the pressure on Duke Energy Corp. to clean up groundwater contaminated by its coal ash pits, environmental lawyers argued Thursday. The Charlotte-based ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s environmental watchdog agency has not been trying very hard to force Duke Energy to clean up toxic groundwater pollution near a coal-burning power plant where neighbors can’t drink their well water, a federal judge said. U.S. ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected a bid by North Carolina’s environment agency to block Duke Energy from removing toxic coal ash from more plants than required under a new state law. Duke Energy has asked to add ...

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DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has temporarily halted a Duke Energy shareholder lawsuit prompted by a massive coal ash spill in North Carolina to give the company time to address related lawsuits and regulatory actions. Duke Energy agreed in February to ...

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The chairman of a North Carolina environmental committee says they are looking at beneficial uses for millions of tons of coal ash being stored in waste pits.

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Environmental groups say the coal ash stored at a Gallatin plant is illegally seeping toxic chemicals into the Cumberland River, a drinking water source for millions.

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A politically-active environmental group is running television ads targeting three western North Carolina state House Republicans who are seeking re-election, criticizing them for their votes on legislation to clean up coal ash ponds.

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Gov. Pat McCrory says he will likely sign a coal ash cleanup bill approved last week by the North Carolina legislature into law, even though he suggested a key provision violates the state Constitution.

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RALEIGH — Most of the North Carolina legislature is returning to Raleigh by week’s end to try to wrap up its three-month work session. The full Senate prepared to convene late Thursday to take up an adjournment resolution that likely ...

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