Alpha Natural Resources’s lawyers have had their hands full with environmental litigation lately, as we detail in a RAN Coal Risk Update released today. During 2012, environmental groups filed multiple lawsuits against Alpha over alleged water contamination from selenium at the company’s mountaintop removal mines.
The company’s 2011 sustainability report advertised that it had a “99.7% water quality compliance rate.” That sounds pretty good, but the Sierra Club and its allies are a savvy bunch of litigators who don’t usually pick fights with coal companies unless they intend to win.
From blog: Ran by Ben Collins on 2013-02-04 14:00:00
