WILMINGTON, N.C. — December 8, 2014 — Environmentalists are calling on North Carolina health officials to warn people against eating fish caught near a Duke Energy coal ash dump outside Wilmington after a new study shows high levels of contamination.
The study by two University of Florida professors working with the Southern Environmental Law Center says Duke's own tissue samples taken from fish caught at Sutton Lake shows concentrations of selenium exceeding levels deemed safe for daily consumption.