(Gerry Broome | The Associated Press) In this Jan. 14, 2016 file photo, workers excavate coal ash-laden soil to be removed from the Dan River Steam Station in Eden, N.C. A string of decisions by North Carolina regulators means electricity consumers could be seeing a $5 billion bill to clean up mountains of waste Duke Energy created by spending decades burning coal to produce power. State utilities regulators late last June 2018 decided that both North Carolina divisions of the country’s No. 2 power company could charge ratepayers for the cleanup.
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