All it took was a leak in a stormwater pipe. Over the course of one week in February 2014, nearly 40,000 tons of coal ash and 27 million gallons of contaminated wastewater poured from a retired Duke Energy power plant into the Dan River in Eden, North Carolina. Toxic gray sludge coated the riverbanks for miles, and carcinogenic heavy metals contaminated the drinking water for the thousands of…
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