Sentences with phrase «allowed coal mining companies»
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In late November 2009, Peabody Energy's Arclar Coal Company received two permits, one for water quality certification and one for discharge, allowing mining to expand on 668 acres at the Wildcat Hills Complex in southern Illinois.
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The lawsuit contends that coal companies pumped waste coal slurry into empty mines, and that underground cracks allowed the waste to pollute the aquifer.
(It was a more streamlined bill that limited pollution from big «upstream» energy companies — think coal mining and oil production — and didn't allow a freewheeling market in carbon - pollution credits.)