Groups Can Intervene In Clean Water Settlement
- {Kentucky}...Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals ruled that citizen groups can continue their case against the state Energy and Environmental Cabinet, Frasure Creek Mining and ICG. The cabinet attempted to keep the groups from intervening in a settlement agreement between the cabinet and the companies over some 20,000 violations of the Clean Water Act in 2010. Kentucky Riverkeepers, Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for The Commonwealth and Waterkeeper Alliance have filed a new complaint against Frasure Creek Mining and ICG, alleging that since the settlement agreement there have been 4,000 new instances of violations of the Clean Water Act in the first three months of 2011.
