FILE - In this April 25, 2014, file photo, Bryant Gobble, left, embraces his wife, Sherry Gobble, right, as they look from their yard across an ash pond full of dead trees toward Duke Energy's Buck Steam Station in Dukeville, N.C. Duke Energy has agreed to remove millions of tons of coal ash containing toxic heavy metals from a power plant in North Carolina. The nation’s largest electricity company announced Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 that it would dig up three huge pits of water-logged ash at the Buck Steam Station near Salisbury. The ash will be dried and either offered for use in making concrete or moved to lined landfills elsewhere. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
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Hegseth joins veterans, generals to mark 80th anniversary of battle of Iwo Jima
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