December 14, 2009
PRN and Friends File Notice to Sue Over Years of Pollution
- Point Source Pollution (photo credit: www.flickr.com/photos/thoth-god/)
Prairie Rivers Network, in partnership with the Sierra Club and the Environmental Law and Policy Center, has filed a notice of intent to sue Freeman United Coal Mining Company, regarding repeated and excessive violations of the Clean Water Act.
The Industry Mine, near Macomb, has over 300 documented exceedances of their NPDES permit since July, 2003. You can read the press release here and review the violations here.
Press coverage of the lawsuit is listed below:
Macomb Public Radio - a clip from their broadcast was on Peoria Public Radio Friday evening)
Macomb Daily Journal - has comment from Industry Mine contact Greg Arnett (same person is promoter for N. Canton Mine
Huffington Post - front page of Chicago news by Jeff Biggers
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