Source: Lynn Bonner, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 1/2/20

Duke Energy will dig up nearly 80 million tons of coal ash at six sites in North Carolina in a legal settlement with the state Department of Environmental Quality. DEQ said the excavation would be the largest coal-ash clean up in U.S. history. Last year, DEQ ordered the utility to dig up ash from nine basins at six sites. Duke Energy had planned to keep the ash in place at those locations, sealed with a cap. The utility sued DEQ over the order. The settlement was signed Dec. 31.

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