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A federal judge in Birmingham is granting a request by Black Warrior Riverkeeper to approve a Consent Decree, which requires Warrior Met Coal to fix its leaking coal slurry impoundment. The ruling also orders a stop to discharging polluted wastewater without a permit at Mine No. 7 near Brookwood in Tuscaloosa County.

STEVENSON, Ala. (AP) — Workers have used explosives to implode a pair of 500-foot-tall (152-meter-tall) stacks at an idled Tennessee Valley Authority coal…