{Kentucky}...Kentucky Riverkeeper, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Appalachian Voices and the Waterway Alliance environmental groups are threatening to sue Nally and Hamilton, the fourth largest surface mining company in Kentucky, for the second time this year. The groups say the company has submitted an additional 5,000 possibly false water pollution discharge reports. The groups sued in May over 12,000 alleged violations from 2008 to 2011. They then decided to go back to 2006 and 2007 to look at Nally and Hamilton's discharge monitoring reports and found the additional 5,000 alleged violations. The groups say the discharge reports sent to state authorities included the same data month after month and appear to be "copy and pasted" from previous reports, and legally required information was also missing. The groups also have an ongoing lawsuit in Franklin Circuit Court against ICG and Frasure Creek over similar false reporting allegations.
