A stormwater pipe at a shuttered Duke Energy coal plant in North Carolina has sent thousands of tons of coal ash into the Dan River, which provides drinking water for downstream communities. Five years after another coal ash disaster in Tennessee led to promises for federal regulations, when will we finally see them enacted?
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Water quality specialists with the environmental advocacy group Appalachian Voices visited the site of Duke Energy's Feb. 2 coal ash spill to test the water and take photos. (Photo by Appalachian Voices; to see more images from the spill, click here.)
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Water quality specialists with the environmental advocacy group Appalachian Voices visited the site of Duke Energy's Feb. 2 coal ash spill to test the water and take photos. (Photo by Appalachian Voices; to see more images from the spill, click <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/appvoices/sets/72157640498306435/">here</a>.)