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Coal company penalized for Clean Water Act violations |
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17 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:16 PM on 17 Jan 2008 Massey Energy Co., the nation's fourth-largest coal producer, has agreed to a $30 million settlement with the U.S. EPA over allegations of Clean Water Act violations. Massey was accused of polluting streams and waterways in West Virginia and Kentucky with the detritus of mountaintop-removal mining on at least 4,500 occasions between 2000 and 2006. The company must pay $20 million in civil pena ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, litigation, mining, news, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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