Duke Energy is polluting groundwater, damaging wetlands, and storing coal ash in unstable areas at unlined, leaking sites in North and South Carolina, according to its own recent filings required by the US federal Coal […]
Citizen groups from across the state on April 4, 2018 submitted comments objecting to parts of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s proposed coal ash rules that would undercut the rights of North Carolina […]
The NC Department of Environmental Quality wants public feedback on a plan to speed up the closure of coal ash ponds at three facilities near Charlotte. On January 9, 2018, the department announced that it […]
Local community groups across the country today sent notices that they plan to bring enforcement actions against Duke Energy for withholding critical dam safety information that Duke Energy was required to disclose to nearby communities, […]
Judge Orders TVA to Excavate and Move Its Coal Ash from Leaking, Unlined Pit By Beth Alexander and Claudine McElwain, Southern Environmental Law Center On August 4, 2017, a Federal Court in Nashville Tennessee ruled against […]
Southern Environmental Law Center Says Duke Energy Coal Ash Pollution into Hyco Lake and Dan River and Roanoke River Basins Violates Clean Water Act By Frank Holleman, selcnc.org On behalf of the Roanoke River Basin Association, […]
This information was released by Duke Energy on October 14, 2016: As we have been communicating for several days, historically high flood waters in the Neuse River have covered three inactive coal ash basins at the […]
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Seeks to Permit Duke Energy’s Leaks of Coal Ash Polluted Wastewater into the Dan River and Roanoke River Basin Released by Kathleen Sullivan, selcnc.org Three new permits proposed by the […]
State Releases Deadlines for Coal Ash Pond Closures, will Request Changes to Coal Ash Law Released by Crystal Feldman, ncdenr.gov The state environmental department on May 18, 2016, released proposed classifications for all coal ash ponds in North […]
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