COURIER-JOURNAL: How Coal Companies Walked Away from their ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophes

Deputy Director Mary Cromer was interviewed for this article.

“‘It is clear from what I have seen, looking at the enforcement records that go back to 2016, there was a huge problem on this permit,’ said Mary Varson Cromer, deputy director of the Appalachian Citizens Law Center in nearby Whitesburg, Kentucky.

From 2016 to the company’s bankruptcy in 2019, the state did ‘very little’ to enforce its regulations beyond issuing violation notices, she said.”

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