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"Contamination Lawsuits Push Duke Energy To Address Pollution" [1]

"Look no further than the Carolina coast to see what kind of damage a coal-fired power plant can do to underground sources of drinking water."



"Massive groundwater contamination is rendering unusable the private wells of about 400 people in a Wilmington-area community known as Flemington. A potentially toxic plume of arsenic and other chemicals is leaking underground from a dump site at the Sutton Power Plant owned by Duke Energy, and it is heading toward those wells.

A corporate mea culpa of sorts is on its way, too."

Bertrand M. Gutierrez reports for the Winston-Salem Journal November 2, 2013. [2]

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Source: Winston-Salem Journal [2], 11/04/2013
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/contamination-lawsuits-push-duke-energy-address-pollution [2] http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_9e812c80-4423-11e3-b39a-0019bb30f31a.html [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/waste [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast [8] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81