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Emails Link Duke Energy and North Carolina
2014-03-14 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Environmental regulators in North Carolina consulted Duke Energy last year before seeking to exclude citizen activists from talks to settle charges that the utilitys coal ash ponds had polluted the states groundwater, newly released email exchanges among the regulators indicated on Thursday. Duke officials and the state later settled the charges by proposing a fine and a requirement that Duke study the potential for further pollution before offering solutions. That agreement collapsed in February...
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Emails show close ties between Duke, NC regulators
2014-03-14 01:00:58| Energy - Topix.net
Internal emails between staff at North Carolina's environmental agency suggest state regulators were coordinating with Duke Energy before intervening in efforts by citizens groups trying to sue the company over groundwater pollution leeching from its coal ash dumps.
N Carolina environment agency worked with Duke Energy on coal ash spills
2014-03-13 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Internal emails between staff at North Carolinas environmental agency show state regulators were coordinating with Duke Energy before intervening in efforts by citizens groups trying to sue the company over pollution leeching from its coal ash dumps. The emails were provided on Thursday to the Associated Press by the Southern Environmental Law Center, which had filed notice in January 2012 of its intent to sue Duke under the Clean Water Act. Within days, the emails show a Duke lobbyist contacted...
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Duke Energy Continues to Make Progress Restoring Power
2014-03-12 17:51:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Duke Energy was on track to restore power to 98 percent of storm-affected customers by midnight last night, after the third largest ice storm bowled through the Carolinas. read more
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The worlds first acoustic invisibility cloak has been created by Duke University
2014-03-12 15:09:44| Extremetech
Duke University has built the first 3D omnidirectional acoustic invisibility cloak. The cloaking device, which takes the form of a pyramid of perforated plastic, is hidden from sound waves striking it from any direction -- if you fired some sound waves at the device, using sonar for example, you would see nothing; not the cloak, and not the object beneath it. This has obvious applications in the military, but also in architectural acoustics.
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