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Rural North Carolina residents resist Duke coal ash plan
In Colon and surrounding Lee County residents oppose Duke Energy moving up to 8 million tons of coal ash from leaky basins to an abandoned clay mine. They warn of environmental risks and stigma while regulators and a federal grand jury review the Dan River spill handling.
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Colon
N.C
Dan River
North Carolina
Duke Energy
Joe Bray
Piney Woods
Bray
Lee County
Duke
John Crumpton
Lee
Tennessee
Therese Vick
The
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
Chatham County
Mike Hughes
Hughes
Chatham
Charah
Charlotte
Wilmington
Donna Bray
Joe
Southern Environmental Law Center
Chapel Hill
Frank Holleman
Holleman
Los Angeles Times
Barbara
Major Wood
Wood