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Protesters carry signs and demonstrate in front of the Duke Energy office building in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, May 1, 2014, as shareholders hold their annual meeting. Some Duke Energy investors plan to push the utility's board of directors to investigate issues surrounding a massive coal ash spill that dumped toxic sludge into a 70-mile stretch of a North Carolina river. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, T. Ortega Gaines) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; NEWSPAPER INTERNET ONLY (REV-SHARE)

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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2013 file photo, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory speaks during a news conference at the East Carolina School of Dental Medicine in Greenville, N.C. Documents and interviews collected by The Associated Press show how Duke’s lobbyists prodded Republican legislators to tuck a 330-word provision in a regulatory reform bill running nearly 60 single-spaced pages. Though the bill never once mentions coal ash, the change allowed Duke to avoid any costly cleanup of contaminated groundwater leaching from its unlined dumps toward rivers, lakes and the drinking wells of nearby homeowners. Passed overwhelmingly by the GOP-controlled legislature, the bill was signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory, a pro-business Republican who worked at Duke for 28 years. (AP Photo/The Daily Reflector, Rhett Butler)

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