virginia. in which it appears, based on the court documents, the man identified by "the washington post" as the owner of freedom industries, cliff forrest, is the same man who started a new company with the capacity to secure a big chunk of freedom industry's assets while sidestepping much of its legal liability. even though these two companies are both run by someone named clifford forrest, a certified and a legal filing, the terms of this agreement were negotiated, quote, at arm's length. all this got us wanting to learn a little bit more about cliff forrest, so we spent some time looking into the man identified as freedom industries owner. the first thing you need to know is that he's a coal magnate. he owns rose bud mining company, which has more than 1,200 employees and is among the largest coal producers in ohio and pennsylvania, which makes him the apparent owner, both of a coal company, and a company that deals in chemicals used by the coal industry. and keep that connection in mind when you hear folks like west virginia governor, earl ray tomlin, try to put distance between big coal and the big