Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 6/28/18

North Carolina's top attorney says he's going to challenge a decision allowing the country's No. 2 electricity company to charge consumers hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up mountains of coal-ash waste. State utilities regulators last week said they would review Duke Energy's cleanup costs in central and western North Carolina and fined the company's regional operating unit $70 million for mishandling coal ash over the years. The ash was left by burning coal to produce power.

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