The proposed settlement set to be filed Monday with the North Carolina Utilities Commission would slash customers’ costs for closing coal-ash ponds by about $1.1 billion through 2030 ...

Duke’s North Carolina ash ponds are apparently still leaking more than 3 million gallons a day near rivers and lakes. Duke in December reported 200 seeps at its 14 coal-fired power plants but ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. If you care about safe water for all, you should be celebrating the North Carolina ...

Approximately 60,000 cubic yards — roughly the equivalent of 46 Olympic-sized swimming pools — of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s toxic coal ash was dumped in a large pit at 828 Martin ...