FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Kentucky Coal Company Falsifies Water Monitoring Data, Advocates Allege Coalition To Sue Mining Company In Latest Revelation of Lax Enforcement by Kentucky Officials – – – – – – – – – –…
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Kentucky Water Monitoring Lawsuit
DENIED! Attempted Legal Run-Around by State of Kentucky
Cross-posted from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, one of our partners in our legal action against ICG and Frasure Creek Mining: The Kentucky Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of KFTC, Appalachian Voices, Kentucky Riverkeeper and the Waterkeeper Alliance by…
Legal Update: Shining the White Hot Spotlight of Justice
Our legal case involving the two Kentucky coal companies’ 20,000+ violations of the Clean Water Act is making Big Coal squirm. On Monday February 21, 2011 Frasure Creek Mining and the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet made an unprecedented move…
Great News for Clean Water in Kentucky
In a precedent setting move today, Judge Phillip Shepherd granted limited intervention rights to Appalachian Voices, KFTC, the Kentucky Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance in the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet’s Case against International Coal Group (ICG) and Frasure Creek Mining.…
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Kentucky Legal Action Update
Last Thursday there was a hearing to decide if we would be allowed to intervene in the interest of clean water in a legal case between the state of Kentucky and ICG and Frasure Creek Mining. The Appalachian Water Watch…
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Why Fight When You Can Hide?
Welcome to the biggest fight of 2011! In one corner, Appalachian Voices’ Water Watch team stands poised and ready to fight for clean water. In the other corner, Big Coal tries to defend their polluting ways. The next round of…
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Breaking News: Kentucky refuses to post the full record against ICG and Frasure Creek
On Dec 17, 2010, Judge Shepherd ordered the Kentucky Energy & Environment Cabinet to post the proposed consent judgments with ICG and Frasure Creek to its website and provide for a 30 day public comment period. When the Appalachia Water…
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The People vs. Big Coal- Appalachia Water Watch
Our Appalachia Water Watch team has been busy busting Big Coal in Kentucky with great results. After finding over 20,000 violations of the Clean Water Act, including evidence of tampering and falsification of discharge monitoring reports, we filed a legally…
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Clean Water Advocates Seek to Intervene in Kentucky’s Settlement with Polluter Coal Companies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Falsified Monitoring Data in Violation of Federal Law Among the Groups’ Claims ————————————————————– CONTACTS Donna Lisenby for Appalachian Voices, 828-262-1500 Pat Banks for Kentucky Riverkeeper, 859-622-3065 Ted Withrow for Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, 606-784-6885 Nicole Summer and…
Kentucky’s Investigation into Coal Company Water Violations Should Dig Deeper
Last Friday the State of Kentucky announced that they had negotiated a $660,000 settlement with three coal companies over 2,765 water quality related violations at 103 coal mining operations in Kentucky. Based on a recent analysis by Appalachian Water Watch…
