Feds OK DEP oversight of Justice coal mine after threatening enforcement takeover

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Feds OK DEP oversight of Justice coal mine after threatening enforcement takeover

After threatening to seize enforcement authority from West Virginia regulators over one of Sen. Jim Justice’s coal mines with chronic environmental violations during the waning weeks of the Biden administration, federal authorities have backed off under the new Trump regime. The federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, or OSMRE, has signed off on state Department of Environmental Protection’s oversight of a Justice family-co…