Environmental Groups Challenge Agreement

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Environmental groups Appalachian Voices, Kentucky Riverkeeper, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth and Waterkeeper Alliance filed a petition in Franklin Circuit Court Thursday asking a judge to reject the agreement between the Kentucky Energy and Environmental Cabinet and Bardstown-based Nally & Hamilton Enterprises requiring the coal company to pay $507,000 in fines. The environmentalists say the agreement was reached in secret, and the amount is far below what the company should owe, which they estimate to be hundreds of millions of dollars.