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• Five of them drowned, including 35-year-old Theresa Villano, who was six months pregnant at the time.

• As a result, the Villano family has filed a lawsuit against Duke Energy, the second-largest utility in the U.S., to hold it accountable, and demand that they modify the dams or eliminate them altogether.

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• For decades, Duke dumped the ash into ponds and mounds around its coal-fired power plants. In recent years, the federal government, courts, state lawmakers and regulators have ordered the company to clean up coal ash sites.

• Duke Energy has reached a confidential settlement with two of a group of insurance over coal ash cleanups.

• In a , Duke says French insurer Generali, formerly known as Le Continent, paid the undisclosed settlement on May 7. Duke also recently settled with another French company, L'Etoile, according to Duke spokesman Bill Norton.

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• 整改 — Duke Energy

  Duke Energy will enter a five-year probation period, during which the company agreed to establish environmental compliance plans under the supervision of a court-appointed monitor

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• 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.

• The U.S. Department of Justice fined the company for five Clean Water Act violations at its Dan River and Riverbend steam stations and four Clean Water Act violations at the company's H.F. Lee Steam, Cape Fear and Asheville electricity-generating plants, according to a company statement on Friday.

• A pipe break at a retired Duke coal plant triggered the third-worst coal ash spill in U.S. history