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Federal investigators have finally released the results of a year-long investigation into Duke Energy coal ash spills in North Carolina. Three U.S. attorney’s offices and the Department of Justice Environmental Crimes section, have filed charges against Duke Energy Corp. has agreed to settle charges that it violated the federal Clean Water Act by spilling coal ash into the Dan River in North Carolina last year, and will pay $102.2 million in penalties and restitution. The deal with federal investigators CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 1,000 additional personnel are responding to Duke Energy's hardest-hit areas today – restoring power to thousands in North Carolina affected by an overnight snowstorm. View photo A total of 3,500 A year after a massive coal ash spill into a North Carolina river, Duke Energy said Friday it would pay $102 million in a proposed settlement of nine criminal charges filed against the company by the U.S. government. The charges, all misdemeanors alleging On Feb. 2, 2014, employees of Duke Energy noticed a leak from a 48 inch pipe, that was releasing coal ash into the Dan River in North Carolina. It took six days to cap the pipe which had drained 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River. This ash mixed Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) is in hot water. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based utilities company has been slapped with criminal charges by federal prosecutors relating to a violation of the federal Clean Water Act. It has been accused of illegally .

Pat McCrory are pressing his case that his fellow Republicans in the North Carolina legislature violated the state constitution when they created three new commissions, including the one overseeing the closure of Duke Energy's coal ash dumps in the wake of after Duke Energy leaked 35 million gallons of coal ash into it last February. Late Friday, federal prosecutors in North Carolina, along with the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section, filed nine misdemeanor charges against Duke Energy for The nation’s largest energy company has admitted it was guilty of polluting a North Carolina river and other locations with coal ash in recent years. Duke Energy pleaded guilty in a federal court to charges brought Friday by the U.S. Department of Solar projects, 2 MW or larger, would be tied to the company's Green Source Rider. That program, approved in late 2013 by the North Carolina Utilities Commission, allows large customers of Duke Energy Carolinas to supply new electricity load with renewable .