"The son of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice was hailed as a hero five years ago when his family’s company purchased a troubled coke plant in North Birmingham that had polluted three historically Black neighborhoods. Now, a judge says the Justices’ Bluestone Coke is on a “superhighway to contempt.”"
"BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— Chief U.S. District Judge David Proctor is fed up.
“I’m not fooling around anymore,” Proctor said Wednesday in a federal court hearing in Birmingham. “This has gotten past the point of any good faith in this case.”
But the target of Proctor’s ire is not around to hear it.
Jay Justice—son of West Virginia governor and now U.S. Senate candidate Jim Justice—was a no-show at a federal court hearing Wednesday in a Clean Water Act lawsuit over pollution from a long-idled coking plant in north Birmingham. "
Dennis Pillion reports for Inside Climate News August 24, 2024.
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