US charges Duke with illegal pollution from 5 coal ash dumps

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

US charges Duke with illegal pollution from 5 coal ash dumps
By MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press | February 20, 2015 | Updated: February 20, 2015 4:11pm

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against Duke Energy for illegal pollution from coal ash dumps at five North Carolina power plants.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Raleigh charged Duke on Friday with felony violations of the Clean Water Act. The prosecutors say the nation's largest electricity company engaged in illegal dumping for years at coal-fired power plants in Eden, Moncure, Asheville, Goldsboro and Mt. Holly.

Duke said Friday that it expects to pay $102 million in fines and restitution in the case.

The investigation into Duke began last year after a pipe collapsed under a coal ash dump at the Eden plant, coating 70 miles of the Dan River in gray sludge. But in court filings, prosecutors allege there had been ongoing illegal dumping at the plants since 2010.


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[CanonRay]

1. If just ONCE they gave the CEO twenty years

instead of a fine the corporation then writes off, this shit would stop.

[Mopar151]

3. +1000

Charged + cuffed, frogmarched out of an executive meeting, perp walked through the office, hauled away from HQ in a squad car.

[valerief]

2. 102 million? That's lunch money to them. They'll probably never pay a penny anyway.

Congress will change the Clean Water Act and reverse the charges.

[mtngirl47]

4. Don't Worry...

Poor old Duke Power will get the Republican NC Public Utilities Commission to allow them to raise our rates to pay this fine and the clean-up costs....the consumers will suffer for their sins.