This is a guest post from Waterkeepers Alliance. To read their original press release on the breaking story, click here.
GOLDSBORO, N.C. — Waterkeeper Alliance and Sound Rivers have discovered a large coal ash spill into the Neuse River from the Duke Energy H.F. Lee facility, 10 miles upstream of Goldsboro, NC. A substantial but undetermined amount of coal ash was found floating on the surface of the river in a layer over one inch thick. See video here.
The spill came from at least one of three inactive coal ash ponds containing more than one million tons of exposed coal ash. The ponds had been submerged by Hurricane Matthew flood waters for more than seven days until flood waters receded over the weekend. Fly ash coated tree branches as much as seven feet above the river surface, indicating the spill began no later than last Tuesday, when the water level reached a record flood stage.
A recent US Supreme Court decision upheld a key environmental protection rule limiting climate pollution from power plants, sending a message to utilities nationwide that they need to actively decarbonize their power…
If Project 2025 is carried out, the next conservative presidential administration would take a sledgehammer to the policies and programs that help us make progress on addressing climate change, ensuring a future…
In this blog post, we examine the policies and positions of Curtis Richardson, a candidate running for Seat 2 on the Tallahassee City Commission. Also in this series, we profile candidate Dot…