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TexasTowelie

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Sun Apr 28, 2019, 07:46 PM Apr 2019

Alabama's governor could clean up toxic soil. Instead, she took $55,000 from its polluter

Governor Kay Ivey, is this how the story ends?

“The site in Jefferson County, Alabama, was never put on the NPL nor was Drummond deemed a responsible party. The poisonous toxins are still in the ground in North Birmingham. Drummond saved itself over 100 million dollars by preventing the land in North Birmingham it has contaminated from being deemed a Superfund cleanup site and put on the NPL.”

Those are not my words.

They’re from the court record — filed on behalf of David Roberson, the former vice president of Drummond Co., and one of two men convicted last year of bribing state Rep. Oliver Robinson as part of the very scheme he describes.

Roberson is suing Drummond Co., which fired him earlier this year, for $50 million. In his lawsuit, he accuses the company’s general counsel of setting him up to be a fall guy for the Alabama coal giant. Roberson also says the company’s law firm, Balch & Bingham, caused him to believe the scheme was legal, and he’s suing them, too.

Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2019/04/alabamas-governor-could-clean-up-toxic-soil-instead-she-took-55000-from-its-polluter.html

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