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(Reuters) - Duke Energy Corp has agreed to pay a fine of about $102 million for environmental violations related to a power plant's coal ash spill into a North Carolina river last year and the company's management of coal ash basins in the state. Editor's Note – Video sound bites of Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good and Duke Energy North Carolina President Paul Newton are available at www.duke-energy.com/ash-management/. (Click "Videos & Images," then "Lynn Good discusses coal ash management" and "Paul Duke Energy reached a proposed $102.2 million agreement with the US government after the company was charged with nine misdemeanors under the Clean Water Act related to coal ash pollution from five North Carolina power plants, it said. If the proposed plea huge amounts of industrial ash the company stores at 14 sites in North Carolina. A massive spill of 39,000 tons of slurry from a Duke coal ash lagoon a year ago made the Charlotte power company a target for closer scrutiny. “They’re reaping the U.S. Attorneys across the state of North Carolina, along with the Department of Justice Environmental Crimes section filed criminal charges against three subsidiaries of Duke Energy. The charges claim that Duke Energy Business Services, LLC, Duke Energy 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 .

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 Pat McCrory are pressing his case that fellow Republicans at 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. A three-judge The largest penalty the Environmental Protection Agency has levied under the Clean Water Act is $1 billion. It went against Transocean Deepwater Inc. in 2013 for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico. Because coal-fired power plants are That’s what happened two weeks ago when center Jahlil Okafor played 25 minutes after turning his ankle against North Carolina only to miss Duke “We do have a lot of energy left,” Duke freshman guard Tyus Jones said. “We’re coming every .