Environmental groups accuse Kentucky coal company of resuming falsified pollution reports

Do I really need to say that I'm not at all surprised?

The Lexington Herald Leader
Environmental groups accuse Kentucky coal company of resuming falsified pollution reports
By Bill Estep
November 17, 2014

A coal company in Eastern Kentucky has resumed filing false water-pollution reports despite being caught cheating on previous reports that concealed widespread violations, environmental groups have charged.

Four groups notified state and federal officials Monday of their intent to sue Frasure Creek Mining and an affiliate, Trinity Coal Corp.

It appears Frasure Creek stopped submitting false reports for a while after citizen groups first notified state regulators of the problem in 2010, but the company returned to filing improper reports last year, the notice filed Monday alleged.

"We were completely shocked to find they were doing the same thing again," said Mary Cromer, an attorney with Appalachian Citizens' Law Center in Whitesburg, who is helping represent the environmental groups....

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