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Laws work. we have to keep making them work. because the clean water act was supposed to be done, all the rivers were supposed to be fishable and swimmable. only half the rivers that we are supposed to clean up have been cleaned up. let's finish the job. >> and river keeper has helped make that happen and cooperating with government, passing laws. but they are getting cleaner, right? there's been delay in some of the treatment, but it's moving in a cleaner direction. i can fish and swim in the rivers right next to new york city. >> you can sometimes. by when it rains, you end up with so much p...

That stuff has gone down? >> we have to keep making them work because the clean water act is supposed to be done. the waters are supposed to be fishable. only half the rivers we were supposed to clean up have been cleaned up. let's finish the job. >> and river keeper has helped make that happen and cooperating with government, passing laws. but they are getting cleaner, right? there's been delay in some of the treatment. but it's moving in the cleaner direction. i can fish and swim in the rivers right next to new york city. >> you can sometimes. but when it rains, you end up with so much pollu...

Come back. >> go on down there and do not come back. when you are the river keepers and duke energy is the power company, very often the power company wins. not always. last week the river keepers didn't just take their john boats out on the canal, they also flew over the coal ash ponds and from above they took these aerial photographs of the weirdly blue ponds filled with toxic ash. and look what they found. what's going on by that pickup truck down there? the river keeper spotted duke energy pumping water out of the bizarrely blue ponds with the toxic coal ash in them and into the canal. the...

Not say this often, but check this guy out. his name is kemp burdett. he's a river keeper which means he watches out for the health of a river. in this case, the help of the capefear river in north carolina. thursday last week mr. burrdett kra traveled up a canal, the tributary, so he and his friends could take samples of something seeping down into it. particularly interested in this orange stuff, whatever it is, leaving this orange trace along the banks. at the top of that canal, it connects to an old shutdown coal burning power plant that belongs to duke energy. that plant went dark in 2012...

This guy out. his name is kemp burdett. he's a river keeper which means he watches out for the health of a river. in this case, the help of the cape fear river in north carolina. thursday last week mr. burdett traveled up a canal, the tributary, so he and his friends could take samples of something seeping down into it. particularly interested in this orange stuff, whatever it is, leaving this orange trace along the banks. at the top of that canal, it connects to an old shutdown coal burning power plant that belongs to duke energy. that plant went dark in 2012. you can still see the leftovers ...