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Duke Energy pleads guilty to environmental crimes in North Carolina


May 14, 2015
 
Duke Energy Corp pleaded guilty on Thursday to environmental crimes over a North Carolina power plant's coal ash spill into a river and management of coal ash basins in the state, U.S. prosecutors said.
 
The plea entered in federal court in Greenville, North Carolina, by the country's largest power company by generation capacity was expected as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice announced in February.
 
As part of the deal, Duke has agreed to pay $102 million in fines and environmental projects.
 
The company admitted to failures at five of its power plants over several decades that allowed coal ash to enter waterways, including documented problems with the 48-inch pipe that would eventually cause the spill into the Dan River in February 2014.