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TIL in 2000 an impoundment spill in Martin County, Kentucky emptied 300 million gallons of waste (volume of the Empire State Building) containing mercury and arsenic into rivers feeding the Ohio River. Massey Energy received a $5600 fine by federal regulators.

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