Water pollution is incredibly difficult to track down and hold people accountable for, but I think it is extremely important that companies are held accountable for the waste that they produce and the proper disposal of it, so as to minimize the contamination of the water supply.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Lawsuit Against Massey Energy Co.
Five subsidiaries of Massey Energy Co. are being sued by the Sierra Club and three other environmental groups for violations of surface mining laws and the Clean Water Act. The claims against the company includes the dumping of toxic aluminum as well as violating standards iron, pH, and suspended solids levels. "The lawsuit...demands that Massey conduct monitoring and sampling to determine what environmental harm it has caused, then repair any problems and 'restore the environment to its prior uncontaminated condition.'"
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