Environmental groups say that they have found another coal mining company that has destroyed Eastern Kentucky streams without getting federal permits.
In a letter to West Virginia-based Frasure Creek Mining Co., the Sierra Club and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth said that the company was illegally filling streams in Floyd, Magoffin and Pike counties.
In each case, the groups said, state inspectors visited the mines last September and issued notices of non-compliance, but took no enforcement action.
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