DOJ sues coal companies owned by son of top Republican Manchin challenger

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    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    72% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"The defendants are accused of failing to pay over $5 million in civil penalties assessed by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE)."
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-24% Liberal
"From 2018 to 2022, OSMRE cited Premium Coal, National Coal, and S+H Mining for over 100 violations and issued the companies over fifty cessation orders."
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-34% Liberal
"Gov. Justice, a Republican, is looking to unseat Manchin from the Senate in 2024."
Positive
2% Conservative
"The complaint names as defendants the younger Justice and 13 local companies: A&G Coal Corp., Bluestone Coal Corp., Bluestone Oil Corp., Chestnut Land Holdings, LLC, Dynamic Energy, Inc., Frontier Coal Co., Justice Energy Co., Kentucky Fuel Corp., National Coal, LLC., Pay Car Mining, Inc., Premium Coal Company, Inc., S and H Mining, Inc., and Tams Management, Inc., as defendants."
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0% Conservative
"The DOJ litigation was aounced a day after Newsweek reported that Manchin was trailing 22 points behind Justice in a new poll, a concerning signal to Democrats looking to hold onto the Senate majority during next year's elections."
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0% Conservative
"He has been the only Democrat elected to statewide office in West Virginia since Justice switched his party affiliation in 2017."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The elder Justice, a successful businessman prevented from ruing for a third consecutive term as governor, aounced in late April that he would run for Manchin's seat, ending months of speculation."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Manchin is one of three Democratic senators up for reelection in 2024 who represent a state won by former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election."
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-8% Liberal
"Attempts to reach the younger Justice were unsuccessful."
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-12% Liberal
"Former Coecticut senator Joseph Lieberman reacts to the debt ceiling standoff and says 'it's time' for President Biden to negotiate with House Speaker McCarthy on 'Your World.'"
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Former Coecticut senator Joseph Lieberman reacts to the debt ceiling standoff and says 'it's time' for President Biden to negotiate with House Speaker McCarthy on 'Your World.'"
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Fox News Digital also reached out to the governor's office and the elder Justice's campaign but did not immediately hear back."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Roanoke Division, alleges that James C. Justice III - son of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice - and his companies committed more than 100 violations harmful to the environment."
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-26% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : The defendants are accused of failing to pay over $5 million in civil penalties assessed by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE).
33% : From 2018 to 2022, OSMRE cited Premium Coal, National Coal, and S+H Mining for over 100 violations and issued the companies over fifty cessation orders.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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