After filing a lawsuit in 2019, residents of one Ohio town are seeing their case go to federal court this week.
Their complaints involve claims that logging roads were cut into protected lands and that hundreds of trees were removed from a greenbelt that many hoped would help protect the community from buried toxic ash.
Residents near a former coal plant are seeking $3.3 million in damages from the site’s new owner.
Here’s what to know
Commercial Liability Partners bought the former William C. Beckjord coal plant’s 1,443-acre property from Duke Energy in 2018. The Missouri-based company was sued in 2019 by Neighbors Opposed to Pit Expansion a Pierce Township residents’ group…