Near you · NC

North Carolina

The published enforcement settlement on record in North Carolina sits below - real, cited public record. The full picture of who is out of compliance near you lives in the per-state ECHO Exporter rollup, documented as a live-data slot underneath.

Landmark cases sited here

Published settlements · public record Real, cited
  1. Clean Water Act · 2015

    Dan River coal-ash spill

    Duke Energy · North Carolina

    A pipe under a coal-ash pond let go into a drinking-water river.

    Duke Energy subsidiaries pleaded guilty to nine Clean Water Act violations across North Carolina plants and paid $102 million in fines, restitution, and community service after the 2014 Dan River release.

    Source: U.S. DOJ, 2015

    $102 million
    settlement · log scale

Who's polluting near you

Per-state violator leaderboard Live-data slot · not yet populated

This is the ranked list of every regulated facility in North Carolina that is currently out of compliance - the real answer to the site's title. It is deliberately empty: the numbers do not exist in the curated v1 snapshot, and this site does not invent facility rows or noncompliance counts. Here is exactly where the live feed drops in.

FacilityCity / countyProgramsCurrent flagQtrs in noncomplianceLast inspection
Rows for North Carolina populate here from the live ECHO Exporter - one per facility flagged in significant noncompliance, ranked by quarters out of compliance. No rows are shown because no real ones exist in this snapshot.
The swap-point
  • Source ECHO Exporter flat file (ECHO_EXPORTER.csv), echo.epa.gov/tools/data-downloads
  • Filter FAC_STATE = "NC"
  • Flag CWA_SNC_FLAG / CAA_HPV_FLAG / RCRA_SNC_FLAG = significant noncompliance
  • Rank CWA_13QTRS_COMPL_HISTORY parsed to a count of noncompliant quarters
  • Wire-up loadFacilities() in src/lib/source.ts, then npm run data