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A Conversation With Duke Energy

By WFAE • Jun 3, 2014
  • Aerial view of the retired Dan River Steam Station and ash basins.
    Aerial view of the retired Dan River Steam Station and ash basins.
    Duke Energy / Flickr/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

We haven’t had the chance to sit down with Duke Energy since that unfortunate coal ash spill – where more than 30,000 cubic yards of coal ash were dumped into the Dan River. Duke and the EPA recently reached a deal for the clean-up. And Duke just released their 2013 sustainability report. We’ll be joined by two of their environmental executives.

Guests
Dave Mitchell -Director of Air and Waste Programs
Shawn Heath - Vice President of Sustainability

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Energy/Environment
Coal Ash

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced it has struck an agreement with Duke Energy to clean up coal ash from the Dan River. The EPA has been overseeing the company’s response, since a storage pond failed at a Duke coal plant in February, spilling at least 30,000 tons of the waste into the river. But the agreement binds Duke to clean up ash as the EPA directs and to reimburse the agency for its costs. EPA officials say that comes to about $800,000 for the past three-plus months of clean-up.