Judge blasts N.C. regulators in federal ruling on Duke Energy coal-ash case

Finding no evidence that N.C. regulators have acted diligently or “in good faith” to enforce clean water laws at Duke Energy’s (NYSE:DUK) Buck Steam Station in Rowan County, a federal judge says an environmental lawsuit to stop coal-ash violations at the shuttered plant can proceed. Some of the claims in the suit are included in a state enforcement action the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, then called the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, filed in 2013. But the suit…