Source: Emery P. Dalesio, WRAL, 7/18/19

The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country's largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that left miles of a river shared by the two states coated in hazardous coal ash. Government lawyers sought to have Charlotte-based Duke Energy declared responsible for harming fish, birds, amphibia

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