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The 2014 Dan River coal ash spill occurred in February 2014, when an Eden, North Carolina facility owned by Duke Energy spilled 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River. The company later pled guilty to criminal negligence in their handling of coal ash at Eden and elsewhere and paid fines of over $5 million.
The coal ash came from two storage areas owned and operated by Duke Energy. Contaminants from the coal ash may have leached into the water source but long term testing has yet to be done by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or other environmental agencies. Clean up efforts were led by Duke Energy and mostly consisted of skimming the coal ...
Mar. 15—Duke Energy continues efforts to close coal ash ponds, or basins, at its former Wabash River Generating Station along the Wabash River, according to a utility spokeswoman. The work ...
A Lake Norman woman who developed kidney cancer sued Duke Energy on Wednesday over its disposal of toxic coal ash near and beneath lake-area homes and businesses in the 1990s and 2000s.
The H.F. Lee Energy Complex, formerly the Goldsboro Plant, is an electrical power generating complex operated by Duke Energy.The power complex was originally owned by the Carolina Power & Light Company, which inaugurated a coal-fired power plant in 1951.
Millions of tons of coal ash remain at Duke Energy's Sutton Plant north of Wilmington. Here's why that might not be a major problem. Duke's Sutton coal plant closed in 2013, but most of the ash is ...
The state of North Carolina says it has secured an agreement with Duke Energy to excavate nearly 80 million tons (72.5 million metric tons) of coal ash at six facilities. The Department of ...
The Kingston Fossil Plant Spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4.2 million cubic metres) of coal fly ash slurry.