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Jeffrey Hoops, former CEO of coal companies Blackjewel LLC and Revelation Energy LLC, was at the center of two labor enforcement actions announced Tuesday that total nearly $2 million in penalties. The United States Department of Labor reported over $1.2 million in unpaid medical claims and ordered Blackjewel 401(k) plan trustees to pay roughly $637,000 after finding Hoops and other company executives Drew Kesler and Donald Hetrick diverted employee retirement contributions to pay for company expenses.

Jeffrey Hoops, former CEO of coal companies Blackjewel LLC and Revelation Energy LLC, was at the center of two labor enforcement actions announced Tuesday that total nearly $2 million in penalties. The United States Department of Labor reported over $1.2 million in unpaid medical claims and ordered Blackjewel 401(k) plan trustees to pay roughly $637,000 after finding Hoops and other company executives Drew Kesler and Donald Hetrick diverted employee retirement contributions to pay for company expenses.

A prominent regional coal company owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in environmental fines and is in contempt of two federal court orders requiring it to clean up pollution at

West Virginia regulators are threatening to take two Boone County mining permits spanning nearly 1,400 acres away from a prominent coal company in response to a lengthening string of alleged

West Virginia regulators are threatening to take two Boone County mining permits spanning nearly 1,400 acres away from a prominent coal company in response to a lengthening string of alleged