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Say it with milk-bone. new developments this morning in the environmental crisis unfolding in north carolina where residents are still waiting for the third largest coal spill in history to be cleaned up. on february 2nd, a pipe collapsed at a plant owned by duke energy, the nation's largest electricity provider, leaking at least 35 million tons of contaminated water into north carolina's dan river and coating 70 miles along the river with toxic sludge. you're looking at video and stills posted by greenpeace. now, coal ash is the by-product that's left over after coal is burned and can conta...

>> and i want to get to these e-mails now. to be clear, these are e-mails that were exchanged between state regulators and duke attorney attorneys. prior to this spill, they were reaching a settlement about how duke should clean up its pollution. some say they are questionable. when you look at some of the e-mails, they seem pretty benign. i want to read one of them, though. we have a full screen of it which says "we think it makes sense for the consent order to set out deadlines by which the two companies will provide plans to the department for completion of the required activities rather th...

It? we can accommodate it, but we'll nee a new crew, a new airplane. they're not nimble, and it's difficult to make decisions and to make appearances on the fly. they need time to plan. >> i want to be fair because i understand having been a govern governor, they have to submit plans, show their tables are sound and financially prudent. why don't they just tell the american public what the president is doing to them is absolutely a disruption to the marketplace and they can't move that fast because they have to retool their entire marketplace, change the actuarial tables. >> look what has happ...

In time whether any of the states will change their direction on this or whether they'll stay where they are, but the extension does run the risk of perpetuating more than one risk pool, which can adversely affect selection, so the more sick people might be in it or might have different premiums and premium increases. uncertainty is not good in the insurance business. >> do your foal -- fellow commissioners, hearing about another extension for small business or insurance planes that don't meet the strict standards of the new law do they just roll their eyes and say, -- or do thigh get themselv...

Coming on tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you, chris. >> remember the ceo of exxonmobil who opposed a water tower that could be used in his own backyard but seemed fine with it elsewhere? >> a million wells, you can find where most of them are. go out and talk to people. if there was a problem, state regulators would have already been all over this. >> the response from one of the former top executives at the mobile part of exxonmobil next. spokesperson: we decided to settle this.