The EPA has proposed new and stricter limits on toxic contaminants that utilities can discharge from their coal-fired power plants and coal ash landfills — but it’s still unclear how the rules would affect Duke Energy’s facilities in North Carolina.
Millions of gallons of feces, liquified hogs and old meat illegally discharged from a lagoon. Levels of ammonia in the groundwater at more than 17 times legal limits.These are just three of the 15 environmental violations amassed this year by White Oak Farms in Fremont.