You can read The Charlotte Observer article, but the upshot is that the public strongly denounced the state’s proposed “do-nothing” settlement. Almost 5,000 people submitted comments, almost all saying that the settlement doesn’t go far enough to ensuring our water is safe from coal ash waste.

So basically, the public reaction’s was….

And I can only imagine that Duke Energy’s is…

Watch this space for more to come. After all, the state has now filed an injunction for all coal-fired power plants in the state.