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This Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, photo shows coal ash floating on the Neuse River in Goldsboro, N.C. Conservationists and regulators are at odds over how much coal ash was swept away by flooding during Hurricane Matthew - state inspectors say it would fit in the bed of a pickup truck while Waterkeeper Alliance, a watchdog group, argues it's a much larger spill. (Peter Harrison/Waterkeeper Alliance via AP)

N. Carolina requires plan for coal ash swept away by flood

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NRC: Duke could get license this year for Gaffney reactors

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FILE - In this April 25, 2014, file photo, Bryant Gobble, left, embraces his wife, Sherry Gobble, right, as they look from their yard across an ash pond full of dead trees toward Duke Energy's Buck Steam Station in Dukeville, N.C. Duke Energy has agreed to remove millions of tons of coal ash containing toxic heavy metals from a power plant in North Carolina. The nation’s largest electricity company announced Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 that it would dig up three huge pits of water-logged ash at the Buck Steam Station near Salisbury. The ash will be dried and either offered for use in making concrete or moved to lined landfills elsewhere. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Duke Energy to remove coal ash from North Carolina plant

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Amy Adams' hand is covered with coal ash after she pulls it from the Dan River in North Carolina. She is campaign coordinator of Appalachian Voices, a grass-roots environmental organization concerned about toxic sludge. (Associated Press)

Duke Energy coal ash spill, regulators’ fumbling response create fear, confusion in N.C.

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Debbie Hall, of Sanford, N.C., holds a sign protesting coal ash ponds, outside the Duke Energy headquarters before the company's shareholders meeting in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, May 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Duke Energy pleads guilty in federal court for coal ash crimes

By Michael Biesecker - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2014 file photo, girls play on a soccer field near the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy in Wilmington, N.C. Documents and interviews collected by The Associated Press show how Duke’s lobbyists prodded Republican legislators to tuck a 330-word provision in a regulatory reform bill running nearly 60 single-spaced pages. Though the bill never once mentions coal ash, the change allowed Duke to avoid any costly cleanup of contaminated groundwater leaching from its unlined dumps toward rivers, lakes and the drinking wells of nearby homeowners. (AP Photo/Randall Hill, File)

PETE SEPP: Why are governments fining businesses for politically-correct causes?

By Pete Sepp

In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 file photo, signs of coal ash swirl in the water in the Dan River in Danville, Va. A year after the sudden collapse of an old drainage pipe triggered the third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history, regulators say they are still working to determine how much to fine Duke Energy, the nation’s largest electricity company. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

U.S. charges Duke with illegal pollution from coal ash dumps

By Michael Biesecker - Associated Press

Brian Williams, not shown, program manager for the Dan River Basin Association, scoops up coal ash on his canoe paddle from the bank of the Dan River as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of a spill of coal ash in Eden, N.C., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash has been released from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe at the Dan River Power Plant on Sunday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Duke Energy says it will close SC coal ash pits

By Mitch Weiss - Associated Press

An excavator removes coal ash from the ash pond at Santee Cooper's Jefferies power generating station just outside Moncks Corner, S.C., on Feb. 26, 2014. The recycled coal ash is trucked from the site and then used in the manufacture of concrete. Santee Cooper is South Carolina's state-owned electric and water utility. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

Committee looks into beneficial uses of coal ash

By Mitch Weiss - Associated Press

Sunlight streams onto the 43-acre Maywood Solar Farm in Indianapolis on Tuesday, April 15, 2013. The 8-megawatt solar farm completed last month is the nation's first utility-scale solar farm on a federal Superfund site, built on a portion of a former industrial site tainted by decades of coal-tar refining and wood-treatment with the toxic chemical creosote. The farm's solar panels feed power into Indianapolis Power &amp; Light's electrical grid. (AP Photo/Rick Callahan)

Duke Energy to build solar plant in Bladen County

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FILE - This Wednesday Feb. 5, 2014 file photo shows state and federal officials dock after collecting sediment samples as coal ash surfaces on the water on the Dan River in Danville, Va. A coal ash spill from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe at the Dan River Power Plant in Eden N.C. on Sunday released up to 82,000 tons of ash according to Duke Energy. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Duke Energy creates $10 million waterway fund

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FILE - In a Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 file photo, Duke Energy engineers and contractors survey the site of a coal ash spill at the Dan River Power Plant in Eden, N.C., as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of the spill into the river. North Carolina regulators said Friday, March 21, 2014, that they have asked a judge to withdraw a proposed settlement that would have allowed Duke Energy to resolve environmental violations by paying a $99,000 fine with no requirement that the $50 billion company clean up its pollution. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Duke Energy says it will close SC coal ash pits

By MITCH WEISS - Associated Press

Duke Energy&apos;s new solar facilities will look similar to the company&apos;s existing ones. Pictured is the Millfield Solar Power Project in Beaufort County, N.C. (PRNewsFoto/Duke Energy)

Duke Energy to spend $500M for more solar power

By EMERY P. DALESIO - Associated Press

** FILE ** North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, John D. Simmons)

McCrory to let NC coal ash regulation become law

By Emery P. Dalesio - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Duke Energy employees work on power lines in Charlotte, N.C. Duke Energy Corp. reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Duke enters into $1.2B deal with ElectriCities

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FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2014 file photo, Amy Adams, North Carolina campaign coordinator with Appalachian Voices, shows her hand covered with wet coal ash from the Dan River swirling in the background as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of a spill of coal ash into the river in Danville, Va. A federal grand jury is convening Tuesday, March 18, 2014, as part of a widening criminal investigation triggered by the massive Duke Energy coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of the Dan River with toxic sludge. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Groups file lawsuits against Duke over coal ash

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Duke Energy Corporate Headquarters in a Charlotte, N.C. Duke Energy Corp. announced Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, that it is buying Progress Energy Inc. for more than $13 billion in stock in a deal that would create one of the nation's largest utilities.(AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

Dominion, Duke propose $5B natural gas pipeline

By JONATHAN FAHEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Duke Energy employees work on power lines in Charlotte, N.C. Duke Energy Corp. reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Duke halting coal burning at Ohio plant

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Cars drive under a grid of power lines crossing the 5 Highway Friday, March 27, 1998, in Los Angeles. California will try a second time to launch a deregulated, $23 billion electricity market designed to lower rates and improve efficiency through competition. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Duke proposes $1.9 billion Indiana grid upgrade

By RICK CALLAHAN - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 photo, shows a coal ash pond at the Dan River Power Plant in Eden, N.C. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash from the pond has been released from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe into the Dan River. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

NC moves to fine Duke over coal ash pollution

By MICHAEL BIESECKER - Associated Press