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Largely as a result of the attention brought to Duke Energy's handling of coal ash ponds by the 2014 disaster, the North Carolina state legislature ordered Duke Energy to close its 32 ash ponds in the state by 2029. [24] On May 2, 2014, Duke Energy and EPA agreed to a $3 million dollar cleanup agreement.
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 ...
Duke Energy was also ordered to close all of its 32 ash ponds in the state of North Carolina by 2029. [ 73 ] In September 2016, the Government Pension Fund of Norway , then worth $900 billion, excluded Duke Energy and its subsidiaries from the fund, citing "risk of severe environmental damage".
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 ...
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Duke Energy (16 October 2016), "Cooling pond at Duke Energy's H.F. Lee Plant breaks; minimal river impact expected", prnewswire Editors of Power Engineering (22 December 2016), "In Shift, Duke Energy to Recycle Coal Ash at H.F. Lee Plant" , Power Engineering , retrieved 2018-06-23
Water breached the cooling lake dam at Duke's 625-megawatt natural gas L.V. Sutton plant, causing the company to shut the plant. Duke shuts natgas plant due to Florence floods, coal ash leak ...
Columbia Energy Center in Wisconsin with a coal ash pond landfill. An ash pond, also called a coal ash basin or surface impoundment, [1] is an engineered structure used at coal-fired power stations for the disposal of two types of coal combustion products: bottom ash and fly ash.