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Duke Energy subsidiaries plead guilty and sentenced for Clean Water Act crimes
2015-05-17 12:28:04| Energy - Topix.net
Three subsidiaries of North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corporation, the largest utility in the United States, pleaded guilty to nine criminal violations of the Clean Water Act at several of its North Carolina facilities and agreed to pay a $68 million criminal fine and spend $34 million on environmental projects and land conservation to benefit rivers and wetlands in North Carolina and Virginia. Four of the charges are the direct result of the massive coal ash spill from the Dan River steam station into the Dan River near Eden, N.C., in February 2014.
Prosecutors: Duke Energy ignored warnings before ash spill
2015-05-15 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News and Observer: A federal judge ordered Duke Energy to pay a record $102 million criminal penalty Thursday for a humbling litany of ignored warnings that preceded last years coal ash spill into the Dan River. The penalty is the largest criminal fine in North Carolinas federal courts, Senior U.S. District Judge Malcolm Howard said in accepting a plea agreement between Duke and prosecutors. It is our hope this prosecution speaks loudly, said U.S. Attorney Thomas Walker of Raleigh, whose office convened the...
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3 Duke Energy subsidiaries plead guilty to 9 criminal violations of Clean Water Act; $102M settlement
2015-05-15 12:55:36| Green Car Congress
Prosecutors: Duke Energy could have avoided Dan River spill
2015-05-15 10:56:18| Energy - Topix.net
Two years before the massive February 2014 spill at a Duke ash dump in Eden coated 70 miles of the Dan River in gray sludge, engineers at the plant twice requested $20,000 from company headquarters to use a robotic camera to inspect aging drainage pipes, including the one that later collapsed, triggering the disaster. Prosecutors said Duke executives denied the request both times, even after a top manager at the plant personally pleaded for the money to inspect the pipes.
Duke Energy Fined $102M for Clean Water Act Violations
2015-05-15 02:14:00| ENR.com: Headline News
As part of the settlement, the utility will pay $68 million in fines, and will fund $34 million in environmental mitigation programs.
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