Judge: Tainted Groundwater Claims Not Ripe; Plaintiffs Lack Standing

DURHAM, N.C. - A federal judge in North Carolina on March 29 dismissed a coal ash groundwater contamination lawsuit against an energy company on grounds that the environmental group bringing the case failed to establish that it suffered a concrete injury that is "fairly traceable" to the company's alleged violation of law (Roanoke River Basin Association v. Duke Energy Progress, LLC, No. 17-561, M.D. N.C., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52991).
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