CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has approved a tax break for a struggling coal-fired power plant whose operator says a company owned by the governor owes it $3.1 million.
The Republican governor on Tuesday signed a bill to stop charging FirstEnergy Solutions a $12.5 million state tax. The company has been operating in bankruptcy, and its CEO had said its Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island would likely close in the next year without the tax exemption.
FirstEnergy Solutions has an ongoing federal suit against Justice’s Bluestone Energy Sales Corp. accusing the governor’s company of reneging on a 2016 agreement to buy $3.1 million worth of coal.
The governor’s general counsel, Brian Abraham, said Justice wasn’t aware of the case.
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