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A company owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is paying a $925,000 fine to an Alabama health agency after it shut down a coke plant it said was leaking polluting gases.
Bluestone Coke, owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, signed a consent decree that could allow its Birmingham plant to reopen under stricter oversight.
Community advocates in West Virginia say that the fine is too small to offset the harm done by Bluestone Coke.
Bluestone Coke and other industrial plants have polluted north Birmingham’s Black communities for years. Now, they may settle with local regulators for a fraction of what they face in penalties.
The Mishawaka Plan Commission voted to approve plans that could bring a 66-unit townhouse development to Grandview land at Cleveland and Gumwood roads