Source: Laura Leslie, WRAL, 2/1/17

Three years after a major spill in the Dan River brought widespread attention to the issue of coal ash disposal, environmental advocates say the process of closing ash ponds at power plants across North Carolina isn't moving fast enough. Tons of toxic coal ash dumped into the Dan River near Eden on Feb. 2, 2014, when a stormwater pipe that ran under an ash pond at a shuttered Duke Energy plant...

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