WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
ASHLAND, Ky. -A Martha, Ky., man, Josh Ferguson, 42, was sentenced on Tuesday to 5 years' probation, with 12 months of home detention and electronic monitoring, and a $20,000 fine by Chief U.S. District Judge David Bunning for knowingly discharging waste product into waters of the United States.
According to his plea agreement, in the fall of 2025, the Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection ("Kentucky DEP") received a tip about the discharge of "brine water," a waste product of oil production, into the Left Fork Blaine Creek in Lawrence County. On September 3, 2025, a Kentucky DEP inspec...