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Company: Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
Current Parent Company: Alpha Metallurgical Resources
Penalty: $227,500,000
Year: 2014
Date: March 5, 2014
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Secondary Offense: Clean Water Act and related
Violation Description: Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. , Alpha Appalachian Holdings (formerly Massey Energy), and 66 subsidiaries agreed to spend an estimated $200 million to install and operate wastewater treatment systems and to implement comprehensive, system-wide upgrades to reduce discharges of pollution from coal mines in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Overall, the settlement covered approximately 79 active mines and 25 processing plants in these five states. The companies were also required to pay a civil penalty of $27.5 million for thousands of violations of the Clean Water Act.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency referral to the Justice Department
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Tennessee
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: mining and minerals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: coal mining
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