The stories of residents living near Duke Energy's Belews Creek coal-fired power plant in Stokes County, N.C., center on the resilience of a close-knit community - but they also reveal a toxic legacy of decades of coal pollution.

What Remains looks at the Walnut Cove Community's fight against coal ash pollution and Duke Energy through the lens of activist Caroline Armijo and her grief...

Hear from moms in North Carolina who are working together to protect their communities from the impacts of coal ash and the threat of fracking.

Since US President Donald Trump entered the White House, there is one achievement he can't be denied. He has made good on a campaign promise to deconstruct the administrative state, and his administration has delayed or eliminated hundreds of "job killing" federal rules, often following recommendations from powerful industries.

Nearly 1,000 residents living near coal-fired power plants in North Carolina have been relying on bottled water since 2015 when they received notices from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality that their water contained high levels of contaminants such as chromium 6. The state didn't identify a source for the contaminants, but many residents believe the chemicals are coming from coal burning wastes at Duke Energy's nearby power plants. A Duke Energy spokeswoman said their power plants are not the source of well contamination.

Power companies and politicians are turning up the volume on promises of a "clean energy future". Meanwhile, neighbors just down the road await another pallet of bottled water, toxicity level checks on their wells...and bodies. No, this is not Flint, Michigan...it's North Carolina, and the future is now.

We Shall Not Be Moved

From the Ashes goes beyond the rhetoric of the "war on coal" to present compelling stories about what is at stake for our economy, health and climate. It will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and on June 25, 2017 on the National Geographic Channel.

The story of one North Carolina community's struggle for clean water against a state government that seems intent on protecting the vast Duke Energy Corporation at the expense of regular folks. Sometimes you have to take the fight to the man when it comes to our most basic human rights, like access to clean water.

Coal ash, which contains many of the world's worst carcinogens, is what's left over when coal is burnt for electricity. An estimated 113 million tons of coal ash are produced annually in the US, and stored in almost every state - some of it literally in people's backyards.

What happens when the local, state, and federal government turn the other way? Uniontown, a rural, predominantly black town in the middle of the Black Belt, has been dealing with contamination for years and no one has done anything about it.