Chesapeake Energy Pleads Guilty to Violating Clean Water Act

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Chesapeake Energy pleaded guilty in federal court today to three violations of the Clean Water Act, admitting it had dumped 60 tons of crushed stone and gravel into the Blake Fork stream in West Virginia on three different occasions in 2008. 
One of the dumps obliterated a natural waterfall, federal officials said.
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