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Friday, September 16, 2005
Law - Coal-sludge spill lawsuit will go to trial Monday in E. Ky.
An AP story today in the Louisville Courier Journal reports:
INEZ, Ky. -- A trial is scheduled to begin Monday in a lawsuit filed by people whose property was covered in coal sludge five years ago in one of the South's worst ecological disasters.The case involves the spill of an estimated 306 million gallons of the molasses-like substance that gushed in torrents from a mountaintop reservoir, smothering fish, blackening the landscape and cutting off drinking-water supplies for about 60 miles along the Kentucky-West Virginia border.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 16, 2005 08:07 AM
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