Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by.
coal ash. and that might have been the end of it in north carolina, except for what happened along the dan river. last month on super bowl sunday, a duke energy coal ash dump in eden, north carolina, broke loose, went gushing into the dan river coating that river bottom for 70 miles with a ribbon of sludge and toxins like arsenic, it was the third largest coal ash spill in our nation s history. and the ensuing rage about that disaster, the associated press revealed what the mccrory administration had done to stop these coal ash pits from getting fixed whenever environmentalists tried to fix them. it was a really big embarrassment for governor duke energy. but now it looks like things might have changed in north carolina. this afternoon, at about 4:00 eastern time, north carolina s environmental agency posted this letter from the ceo of duke energy. the letter is addressed to the governor and north carolina s environmental secretary and it kind of says, okay, you win. we re going to c
last month on super bowl sunday, a duke energy coal ash dump in eden, north carolina, broke loose, went gushing into the dan river coating that river bottom for 70 miles with a ribbon of sludge and toxins like arsenic, it was the third largest coal ash spill in our nation s history. and the ensuing rage about that disaster, the associated press revealed what the mccrory administration had done to stop these coal ash pits from getting fixed whenever environmentalists tried to fix them. it was a really big embarrassment for governor duke energy. but now it looks like things might have changed in north carolina. this afternoon, at about 4:00 eastern time, north carolina s environmental agency posted this letter from the ceo of duke energy. the letter is addressed to the governor and north carolina s environmental secretary and it kind of says, okay, you win. we re going to clean it up. duke says in this letter they re going to start the process of moving the rest of their coal ash away
a duke energy coal ash dump in eden, north carolina, broke loose, went gushing into the dan river coating that river bottom for 70 miles with a ribbon of sludge and toxins like arsenic, it was the third largest coal ash spill in our nation s history. and the ensuing rage about that disaster, the associated press revealed what the mccrory administration had done to stop these coal ash pits from getting fixed whenever environmentalists tried to fix them. it was a really big embarrassment for governor duke energy. but now it looks like things might have changed in north carolina. this afternoon, at about 4:00 eastern time, north carolina s environmental agency posted this letter from the ceo of duke energy. the letter is addressed to the governor and north carolina s environmental secretary and it kind of says, okay, you win. we re going to clean it up. duke says in this letter they re going to start the process of
to duke energy, it s not exactly as open and shut as the governor would suggest there. that very question, in fact, is now the subject of a federal investigation. last week, federal prosecutors in north carolina sent a subpoena to north carolina s environmental agency and to duke energy seeking documents and testimony from the state and the company about the coal ash spill. the u.s. attorney s office described that subpoena as part of, quote, an official criminal investigation of a suspected felony. that subpoena went out at the beginning of last week. this week we learned of more subpoenas which seemed to inquiry into governor mcrory s administration. federal prosecutors this week sent a subpoena seeking information about the state s regulation about every duke energy coal ash dump in the state, not just the one that spilled earlier this month. prosecutors subpoenaed the environmental agency and also 18 staff members at that agency. what prosecutors are looking for