From the Asheville Citizen-Times:
With the disastrous Dan River coal ash spill fresh in their minds, the first bill filed when state lawmakers convened in May was intended to overhaul the way Duke Energy handles the toxic waste.
But wrangling between the House and Senate left the legislation for dead as the General Assembly’s 2014 short session came to a close last week.
Activists now view that failure as emblematic of how the legislators handled environmental issues this year.
“We find it very disturbing that on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the third-largest coal ash spill in history, we still don’t have a cleanup plan or something in place to keep this from happening again in North Carolina,” said Dan Crawford, director of governmental affairs for the N.C. League of Conservation Voters.
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