Coal Waste

Washington, DC: (Jan-18-08) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against Richmond-based Massey Energy, alleging that the company polluted hundreds of waterways in West Virginia and Kentucky with coal waste. EPA officials state that some of the discharges were more than ten times the amounts allowed by state permits, and that the company violated the federal Clean Water Act on at least 4,500 occasions between January 2000 and the end of 2006. The suit, filed in May 2007, reached settlement after the company agreed to a multimillion-dollar agreement to resolve allegations. Massey officials announced that it will pay $20 million in civil penalties and invest an additional $10 million in pollution control improvements at its 44 mines and coal facilities in the two states and in Virginia. [WHSV NEWS: COAL WASTE]

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Published on Jan-18-08