Article: Firm to pay $1.48 million selenium fine: ; Hobet given nearly two more years to end violations

Staff writer Hobet Mining Inc. will pay a nearly $1.5 million fine to resolve a lawsuit by state regulators over repeated selenium water-quality violations from its sprawling mountaintop removal operations along the Lincoln-Boone county line. Hobet also will give the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection $500,000 worth of rocks, perform two studies of selenium impacts, and get credit for $1.5 million in supplemental environmental protections, for installing selenium treatment systems at its mines. As part of the deal, DEP officials are giving Hobet nearly two more years to stop those pollution violations. A national expert on selenium has warned that the pollution is ...

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