![]() “The Environment Cabinet has continued to be unappreciative, jealous and vindictive,” he says. Justice says the agency should thank him, not criticize him, for fixing 500 mining violations in Kentucky over the past five years. Kentucky Fuel was also caught mining without a permit in an area where the state had ordered work halted three times: “Kentucky Fuel removed coal as if the Commonwealth’s cessation orders did not exist.” The agency says it no longer trusts Justice’s companies. Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet (the state’s EPA) has asked a judge to snap back the remaining $3 million in fines, plus interest. In return, Justice negotiated down $4.5 million of civil penalties to just $1.5 million.įast-forward to 2019. In 2014, Justice personally signed an agreement with the state of Kentucky promising that he would “unconditionally and irrevocably guarantee” that reclamation work on Kentucky Fuel’s mines would be completed by November 2015. ![]() Walter Scriptunas II/APĪrticularly instructive is the case of Kentucky Fuel, one of more than a dozen coal mining companies owned by Justice and his children and run out of Roanoke, Virginia. Billionaire governor Jim Justice takes the oath of office in Charleston, West Virginia in January 2017. ![]()
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