Duke Energy fined $102 million for polluting rivers with coal ash

Posted by on May 15, 2015 @ 7:57 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: May 15, 2015

Duke Energy, the nation’s largest electrical utility, pleaded guilty in federal court May 14, 2015 to nine criminal violations of the Clean Water Act for polluting four major rivers for several years with toxic coal ash from five power plants in North Carolina. The $50.5-billion company was fined $102 million and placed on five years of probation for environmental...

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