A West Virginia Coal Firm was discovered to be in additional contempt of the court docket after failing to attain compliance requirements beforehand set by the court docket concerning water pollution.
The court docket agreed to carry Lexington Coal Firm in additional contempt, following the corporate’s legal responsibility for water pollutant violations being established in March 2021, and it racking up $69,500 in contempt fines, according to the opinion. Three environmental teams, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Appalachian Voices, and the Sierra Membership filed the movement, following the court docket’s holding that Lexington coal was responsible for violations of polluting the water with selenium and ionic pollution, claiming the deadline for compliance had come and gone, and that “little to no progress” had been made concerning addressing the water pollution.
