Coal company to pay $75M for wastewater dump 
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Published: June 14, 2010
Tags: Buchanan County Circuit Court, Environmental, Million-Dollar Settlements
The operator of the largest coal mine in the state will pay $75 million to resolve claims related to its decision more than a decade ago to dump wastewater into mines that were no longer producing coal.
Subsidiaries of what is now CONSOL Energy Inc. contended that they had the right to pump the wastewater from ...
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