West Virginia Gov.’s son, coke plant miss deadline in Alabama water pollution suit

Bluestone Coke, the now-shuttered coking plant in North Birmingham, failed to pay fees in time in a federal lawsuit over polluting Five Mile Creek, environmental groups say. James “Jay” Justice III, son of West Virginia Governor and now-candidate for U.S. Senate Jim Justice, is president of Bluestone. Last month, U.S District Judge R. David Proctor held the younger Justice, plant manager Donald Wiggins and Bluestone in contempt for failing to comply with discovery requests in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups Black Warrior Riverkeeper and the Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP).

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