Chapel Hill Weighs Redeveloping a Site That Sits Atop a Coal Ash Pit Despite Warnings
Residents worry as Chapel Hill makes plans to build atop a 60,000-ton coal ash deposit.
Coal Ash Pollution Present In Sediment, Water in NC Lakes
A new study finds that pollution from coal ash is not strictly limited to landfills and pits that contain it but is present in the sediment and water of five NC lakes and can enter the aquatic food chain.
N.C. Ratepayers Will Save $1.1 Billion in New Duke Energy Coal Ash Settlement
Duke Energy is in the process of closing coal ash basins located across North Carolina.
Duke Energy Agrees to Clean Up Coal Ash Pits
The toxic coal ash will be moved to lined landfills, per a settlement agreement with the state and environmental groups
Duke Energy Wants You to Pay for Its Coal Ash Mess
Get out your wallets: Duke Energy, a behemoth with a market capitalization of more than $62 billion, wants younot its shareholdersto pay for its coal ash mess. Coal ash dominated local headlines between 2014, when thirty-nine thousand tons of toxic coal ash contaminated seventy miles of the Dan River, and 2016, when a state toxicologist…
Watchdogs Say Hurricane Matthew Flooded a Duke Power Plant, Which Spewed Toxic Coal Ash into the Neuse River
For a moment, with the help of an October breeze, rays of sunlight dance across the endless wall of spruces and pines that guards the Neuse River from the wildlife stirring beyond the riverbankrevealing, in all of its burnt orange, maroon, and yellow glory, the dawn of an eastern North Carolina fall. A blue jay,…
The Morning Roundup: Trump Gets Booed by Charity Crowd
Well, it’s Friday. We made it. Of course, some of us—cough, cough, Donald Trump—had a tougher time getting here than others. Let’s dive in: 1) Trump marks another first, gets heckled at Catholic charity event. Tradition? Throw it out the window. Who needs tradition when you can just wing it and, again, be a giant…
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Is Pat McCrory’s DHHS Willing to Jeopardize Lives to Appease the Boss’s Former Employer?
It’s a rare thing when the governor’s chief of staff convenes a Tuesday late-night press conference. It’s a rarer thing when the governor’s chief of staff convenes a Tuesday late-night press conference just to accuse a low-profile bureaucrat of lying under oath. The bureaucrat in question is Kenneth Rudo, a state toxicologist (and registered Republican)…
Coal Ash and North Carolina: A Timeline
A state toxicologist accusing the state health director of putting politics over public safety. A late-night press conference in which Governor McCrory’s chief of staff accuses the toxicologist of perjury. An “open editorial” in which that state health director sounds a lot like a McCrory campaign staffer. The resignation of the state’s epidemiologist because of…
Citing N.C., Environmentalists Call For EPA to Set Hexavalent Chromium Levels
Today, environmental activist Erin Brockovich and the D.C.-based nonprofit Environmental Working Group sent a letter to EPA administrator Gina McCarthy asking for federal standards on hexavalent chromium. Hexavalent chromium is the contaminant that caused the “do-not-drink” order from DHHS to nearly 400 well owners who lived near Duke Energy plants, and was the contaminant in…
The Morning Roundup: The Beginning of the End For Pat McCrory?
Good morning. 1. DHHS drama has boiled over. After the AP broke Ken Rudo’s deposition testifying that the McCrory administration misled the public about the safety of drinking water near coal-fired power plants, the DHHS issued an “open letter to the editor” on August 9th attempting to discredit Rudo. A sampling: Recent media stories and…
The Morning Roundup: Delete Your Account
And we’ll begin with Barry Bamz slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon. To be honest, I’m not sure when—or if—we’ll see another president so effortlessly adept at pop culture. Surely won’t be Hillary. Although this was pretty astute use of social media. (Here, by the way, is the inevitable Vox explainer on what “Delete Your…
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