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The Southern Environmental Law Center and two other environmental organizations issued an August 11th news release stating that a United States District Court Judge in Birmingham,...

The ruling against Drummond Company comes after a more than five-year effort to keep acid drainage out of the Black Warrior River.

The settlement followed years of litigation over contamination of the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River, located north of Birmingham.

Black Warrior Riverkeeper Nelson Brooke says he's planning to sue Drummond Company over alleged new violations at its abandoned underground coal mine on the banks of Locust Fork in Alabama.