Alabama Plant Owned by West Virginia Governor’s Family Fined Nearly $1 Million

Alabama Plant Owned by West Virginia Governor’s Family Fined Nearly $1 Million
Coal is loaded onto a truck at a coal mine on top of Kayford Mountain in W.Va. on June 12, 2008. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
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Bluestone Coke, an Alabama coking plant owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, will pay nearly $1 million in civil penalties after a consent decree was entered and approved by a circuit court judge in Birmingham last week.

The settlement agreement was entered between Bluestone Coke, the Jefferson County Department of Health (JCDH), and a Birmingham environmental group known as GASP.

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