Alpha Natural Resources Agrees to $27.5 Million Fine
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Alpha Natural Resources Inc., the second-largest U.S. coal producer, agreed to pay a $27.5 million fine and spend about $200 million to implement wastewater treatment systems under a proposed settlement with the U.S. government over toxic discharges from its mines in five states.
Alpha and 66 subsidiaries will install and operate treatment systems and implement systemwide upgrades to reduce discharges of pollution from coal mines in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, under the accord filed today in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia.