Duke Energy's board of directors has voted to bump CEO Lynn Good's salary above $1.2 million, calling her performance 'exemplary' just a year after a Duke coal ash spill filled 70 miles of a North Carolina river with toxic heavy metals. In this April 2, 2014 file photo, Duke Energy president and CEO Lynn Good gestures as she speaks to a business group during a luncheon in Charlotte, N.C. Good is getting a raise a year after the country's largest electric company confronted a coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of a North Carolina river in sludge containing toxic heavy metals, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday, June 29, 2015.