State hires big legal guns for Duke Energy’s appeal of $25.1M coal-ash fine

N.C. regulators have hired the law firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton to represent it in Duke Energy’s (NYSE:DUK) challenge to the $25.1 million fine the state imposed for groundwater contamination at the shuttered Sutton Steam Electric Plant. The private firm and the N.C. Attorney General will represent the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the case now before the Office of Administrative Hearings. “It is evident that Duke Energy is choosing to spend its virtually limitless…