The money will never be collected but former executives have agreed to conduct a cleanup.
(Brian Maffly | Tribune file photo) The operators of this shuttered coal-cleaning plant in Wellington have walked away from the 30-acre facility, Utah regulators say, after numerous unabated violations, including the sale of 4,000 tons of coal waste that wound up paving a parking lot. Now the state is sticking four corporate officers each with $2.3 million penalties as leverage to get them to clean up the site.
| Jan. 26, 2021, 1:14 p.m.
It started as a $2,310 fine, a seeming slap on the wrist for the illegal sale of coal waste from a Utah coal-processing plant for use as a road base.