DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A family that lost five members in a tubing accident on a North Carolina river is suing Duke Energy, saying the utility failed to adequately warn people that its dam poses life-threatening risks. Their lawsuit, filed ...

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The CEO and COO for Duke Energy will have to sit for depositions as the company wrangles with its insurers over the costs of cleaning up after the 2014 Dan River coal ash spill after the North Carolina Business Court ...

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By EMERY P. DALESIO AP Business Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country’s largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that ...

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GREENSBORO (AP) A federal judge is keeping alive a lawsuit accusing the country’s second-largest electricity company of violating water pollution laws by allowing potentially toxic coal ash sludge into neighboring waterways. U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs ruled this week that ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s top state lawyer is challenging a decision allowing Duke Energy to charge consumers billions of dollars to clean up coal ash dumps while tacking on a potential profit margin. State Attorney General Josh Stein said Friday ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A string of decisions by North Carolina regulators means electricity consumers could be seeing a multibillion-dollar bill to clean up mountains of waste Duke Energy created by spending decades burning coal to produce power. State utility regulators late ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s top attorney says he’s going to challenge a decision allowing the country’s No. 2 electricity company to charge consumers hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up mountains of coal-ash waste. State utility regulators last week ...

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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 (AP) North Carolina’s highest court is taking up a case that could force new competition on the state’s electricity monopolies. The state Supreme Court on April 17 will consider the Utilities Commission’s decision to fine clean-energy advocacy group NC WARN ...

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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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