"Groups Allege 28,000 Mining Violations, Lax Enforcement"

"Kentucky environmental advocates accused state regulators today of lax enforcement of water quality rules while putting a mining company on notice that they intend to sue over claims of thousands of false pollution reports during the last year.

This all comes, of course, as Sen. Mitch McConnell has accused the U.S. EPA of a war on coal, and promises his own war on the EPA, and as the EPA denies any war on coal -- and, according to journalist Ronnie Ellis, some Kentucky citizens are arguing that it's the coal companies that are waging the war ... a war on the health and environment of Kentucky.

In a 32-page notice of intent to sue, Appalachian Voices, Kentucky Riverkeeper, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth and the Waterkeeper Alliance now assert that Frasure Creek Mining repeatedly faked results from one water pollution monitoring report to the next, misleading government officials and the public. It is the second time the groups have taken legal action against Frasure Creek for similar violations of the Clean Water Act."

James Bruggers reports for the Louisville Courier-Journal November 17, 2014.

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"Clean Mining a Deception in Kentucky, Groups Say" (New York Times)