Environmental Advocates Challenge Peabody On Self-Bonding Authority in Illinois, Indiana

摘要

An environmental organization has filed a citizen complaint with the federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and similar state agencies in Illinois and Indiana, demanding a determination that the coalmining giant Peabody Energy Corp. is violating surface mining statutes for operating without sufficient reclamation bonding. The Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) Feb. 12 filed citizen complaints with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, calling on the state agencies to strip Peabody Energy's self-bonding authority. Pointing to the energy company's "deteriorating financial condition," ELPC asked the agencies to issue violations under the Illinois Surface Coal Mining Land Conservation and Reclamation Act and Indiana's surface mining statute.