June 17, 2014
West Virginia landowners on Monday agreed to begin testing the water for selenium at the site of a former surface coal mine, and to apply for a permit — which it doesn't technically need — to settle a federal lawsuit brought by environmental groups over water pollution.
June 20, 2013
Environmental groups lodged a pair of Clean Water Act suits in West Virginia federal court Wednesday, accusing the owners of two former mountaintop removal coal mines of discharging toxic substances into area waters as part of a litigation campaign targeting pollution at reclaimed sites.