A river full of coal ash. That’s what Lynn Good, CEO of Duke Energy, had to face six months into her job as leader of the largest utility in the United States. On February 2, 2014, security guards at the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station in Eden, North Carolina, noticed liquified coal ash leaking from a buried stormwater pipe. Coal ash is the gray, powdery by-product of burning coal that’s used to produce energy. The drainage pipe had spewed nearly 40,000 tons of the slurry into the Dan River, along with 27 million gallons of wastewater that had been released from an old coal plant that had, ironically, been shut down two years earlier.
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