Raleigh County-based Coal River Mountain Watch has urged the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to step in to address Lexington Coal Company s ballooning delinquent state environmental penalty debt. The group says the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has failed to effectively enforce Lexington compliance.
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The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection renewed the permit, on Jan. 12, 2024, for Lexington Coal Company’s Crescent #2 Surface Mine in Boone and Raleigh counties after it issued two letters on Jan. 9 demanding payment of delinquent civil penalties totaling $5,562 to Lexington on that permit.
The DEP has issued Milton, West Virginia-based Lexington Coal 48 notices of violation and nine cessation orders since the beginning of 2021 for environmental failures at Lexington s Crescent #2 Surface Mine.
A prominent regional coal company owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in environmental fines and is in contempt of two federal court orders requiring it to clean up pollution at