Florence Sets Off Spills At Ash, Waste Sites, Bolstering Calls For Strict Rules

Environmentalists are pushing for stricter EPA and state controls on power plants' coal ash ponds after a North Carolina plant's cooling water dam breached Sept. 21 due to flooding from Hurricane Florence, submerging a nearby coal ash pond and raising prospects for further spills after an earlier ash pond breach at the same facility. Duke Energy announced Sept. 21 that flood waters in North Carolina's Cape Fear region “have caused breaches in the cooling lake dam surrounding the cooling lake”...