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When you look back at all this, bp, exxon valdez, the question you have to ask yourself is, where exactly is the accountability here? ill tell you. last week, mere days after reach a deal with the environmental protection agency to once again begin offshore drilling, bp paid $42 million to the u.s. department of interior of .03% of last years profits for the rights on 24 potential new drilling sites. not just talking about oil, though, here. the business of fossil fuel extraction across the boar...

The rest was dispersed, put into the gulf, put into the water, put into the food stream. thats not acceptable. those are the exact same technologies they used in the prince william sound and the same ones they would use if we had a spill in the arctic. theyre not adequate. >> so one of the arguments you hear was actually made i think either today or yesterday on fox news, right, any time theres a -- particularly when theres a freight oil disaster or this, well, the keystone pipeline is your solu...

The gulf, put into the water, put into the food stream. thats not acceptable. those are the exact same technologies they used in the prince william sound and the same ones they would use if we had a spill in the arctic. theyre not adequate. >> so one of the arguments you hear was actually made i think either today or yesterday on fox news, right, any time theres a -- particularly when theres a freight oil disaster or this, well, the keystone pipeline is your solution. youre concerned about safet...

8% total was skimmed or burned. the rest was dispersed, put into the gulf, put into the water, put into the food stream. thats not acceptable. those are the exact same technologies they used in the prince william sound and the same ones they would use if we had a spill in the arctic. theyre not adequate. >> so one of the arguments you hear was actually made i think either today or yesterday on fox news, right, any time theres a -- particularly when theres a freight oil disaster or this, well, th...

You have to ask yourself is, where exactly is the accountability here? ill tell you. last week, mere days after reaching a deal with the environmental protection agency to once again begin offshore drilling, bp paid $42 million to the u.s. department of interior of .03% of last years profits for the rights of 24 potential new drilling sites. not just talking about oil, though, here. the business of fossil fuel extraction across the board tends to be a very dirty business. last week, north caroli...

>> reporter: officials for the electric utility claim the pumping was part of routine maintenance and was monitored according to the plant permit. state regulators begged to differ. duke energy is the same company being investigated by federal regulators for a massive spill of coal ash waste water last month. . og#wvs#q)pst;v?2v.ac=u÷jf&ée

Spying on one another. which is saturday because youre thinking we should be looking for the people and the plane but sadly these are the political issues and national issues we have to deal with. >> let alone the united states shows up and were like "hey, turn over your data" and theyre like "no." im sure we would do the same thing. >> we would. imagine malaysia saying "bring over your raw data." wed look at them and say "absolutely not. you cant come near here, whatever you need comes through ...

At the coal ash ponds along the river was part of routine maintenance. the company said they had notified state regulators last fall they were doing it and it was a perfectly legal action. state regulators said, no, thats not how it went. state regulators said they only learned of the pumping when they stumbled across it last week as part of their statewide tour of coal ash pits after the dan river mega spill. when we asked duke energy about it today, they told us this routine maintenance happen...

After they posted those pictures, the story got written up in "the new york times" and "l.a. times." this is national news now whats going on in north carolina, ever since duke energys coal ash pond on the dan river in eden, north carolina, broke loose super bowl sunday and coated the river bottom for 70 miles. tons of toxic sludge fouling the river and drinking water has a way of forcing an issue, not just in that one place, but everywhere. this weekend duke energy told "the new york times" the...

"were not going to comment on the details of in he specific e-mails, but we do communicate with regulators." the environmental law group is saying this shows an inappropriate relationship between duke and state regulators. what do you make of them? >> well, it does show they were cozy. you know, the allegation has been that when the so were environmental law center sought to use the clean water act, a provision to allow citizens groups essentially to file lawsuits in federal court when state off...