The Feb. 2 Duke Energy spill dumped tons of toxic coal ash into the river, but the same material is used to make drywall and spread in farmers fields. The EPA is in the process of deciding whether the ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Dig 'em all up. That's the initial recommendation, at least, from the state's environmental regulatory agency as to how Duke Energy should clean up its 34 coal ash pits around the ...

Environmental officials say Duke Energy violated state regulations by pumping 61 million gallons of wastewater from coal ash ponds into the Cape Fear River. N.C. environmental officials say Duke ...

Two weeks ago, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory released a plan, billed as a solution for the coal ash ponds leaking polluted water into rivers and lakes around North Carolina. But environmental ...

The federal government is putting new rules in place that say power companies must dispose of coal ash using similar standards to those that are now applied to household garbage. Although they ...

For more than 80 years, the Thomas family has lived on a farm that abuts three open-air pits containing 6.1 million tons of ash from the coal-fired boilers of Duke Energy’s Buck Steam Station. Built ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Duke Energy announced plans Tuesday to fully excavate 12 more coal ash basins in North Carolina, including all ponds at the H.F. Lee plant in Goldsboro and its Cape Fear plant. The ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The daily headlines generated from the Duke Energy coal ash spill along the Dan River ...

RALEIGH – Duke Energy on Tuesday gave a panel of state lawmakers here a range of estimates on what it would cost and how much time it would take to stop its 14 coal-fired power plant sites from ...

Duke Energy reported over the weekend that enough coal ash had spilled near one of its Wilmington power plants to nearly fill up an Olympic-sized swimming pool — and that a second coal ash site near ...

(AP) The sweet tea served in the tidy kitchen of Joanne Thomas’ antebellum home comes with an ominous warning. “It’s made with bottled water,” says Thomas, a spry 71-year-old. “But the ice comes from ...