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Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by...

Coal ash. and that might have been the end of it in north carolina, except for what happened along the dan river. last month on super bowl sunday, a duke energy coal ash dump in eden, north carolina, broke loose, went gushing into the dan river coating that river bottom for 70 miles with a ribbon of sludge and toxins like arsenic, it was the third largest coal ash spill in our nation's history. and the ensuing rage about that disaster, the "associated press" revealed what the mccrory administration had done to stop these coal ash pits from getting fixed whenever environmentalists tried to fix ...

Last month on super bowl sunday, a duke energy coal ash dump in eden, north carolina, broke loose, went gushing into the dan river coating that river bottom for 70 miles with a ribbon of sludge and toxins like arsenic, it was the third largest coal ash spill in our nation's history. and the ensuing rage about that disaster, the "associated press" revealed what the mccrory administration had done to stop these coal ash pits from getting fixed whenever environmentalists tried to fix them. it was a really big embarrassment for governor duke energy. but now it looks like things might have changed ...

To duke energy, it's not exactly as open and shut as the governor would suggest there. that very question, in fact, is now the subject of a federal investigation. last week, federal prosecutors in north carolina sent a subpoena to north carolina's environmental agency and to duke energy seeking documents and testimony from the state and the company about the coal ash spill. the u.s. attorney's office described that subpoena as part of, quote, an official criminal investigation of a suspected felony. that subpoena went out at the beginning of last week. this week we learned of more subpoenas wh...

The u.s. attorney's office described that subpoena as part of, quote, an official criminal investigation of a suspected felony. that subpoena went out at the beginning of last week. this week we learned of more subpoenas which seemed to indicate a widening of the governor mccrory's administration. federal prosecutors this week sent a subpoena seeking information about the state's regulation about every duke energy coal ash dump in the state, not just the one that spilled earlier this month. prosecutors subpoenaed the environmental agency and also 18 staff members at that agency. what prosecuto...