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Duke energy says a dam containing an 1100 acre reservoir was breached by floodwaters and coal ash may be flowing into the nearby cape fear river. the coal firepower plant occupied the site until 2013 when duke energy replaced it with a natural gas plant. the energy company destroyed the plant last year, but the area held about 7 million tons of coal ash in waste pits closed. duke is still working on digging out the ash basin. kosh al contains hazardous chemicals like mercury and arsenic. up next, the kavanaugh controversy reigniting the "me too" movement. the threat it could pose for republi...

At this point. >> the epa slammed inaccurate reporting on the toxic super fund impacted by harvey, but the statement also says 13 sites were damaged and 11 are so flooded teams can't even get close enough to investigate. this morning on "meet the press," mayor sylvester turner said he'd like the epa to be on the ground to investigate the sites. what's going on here, is the epa just mia? >> it's hard to say. for example, ap reporters made efforts to get access to super fund sites and found they could get to most of them by foot, boat, et cetera, getting access to those facilities, so it's a lit...

Would have prohibited waste pits. apparently waste pits are now authorized by the proposed rules and scale back the air emissions testing. and land under protections. we don't have very good land under protections in north carolina. we don't have a history of destructive industries here. we don't have mining here. this is all new. and the mining and energy commission that's drafting the rules is dominate by industry including a 30-year halliburton employee. >> north carolina state representative pricey harrison, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> i'm sorry. that's crazy. they just legalize...

Required -- would remove the penalty for the disclosure, that would have prohibited waste pits. apparently waste pits are now authorized by the proposed rules and scale back the air emissions testing. and land under protections. we don't have very good land under protections in north carolina. . we don't have a history of destructive industries here. we don't have mining here. this is all new. and the mining and energy commission that's drafting the rules is dominate by industry including a 30-year halliburton employee. >> north carolina state representative pricey harrison, thank you. >> th...

Joining us, the propublica reporter who broke the story. nice to have you back on the show. >> hi, rachel. >> the epa is not saying this water pollution is definitely coming from the fracking in wyoming. is there a reasonable alternate explanation as far as you can tell. >> there are a couple of alternative explanations. they all have to do with drilling if not the fracking process specifically. there are a bunch of waste pits that have contaminated the ground to some extent. the question is, have they gone into people's drinking water wells and what they announced this week, a thousand feet d...