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Asked today if the tap water was safe to drink, governor tomlin told reporters, and i am not making this up, it s your decision. joining me now, alana shore, reporter at green wire. alana, the context for cliff forrest and coal is this incredible kind of upsurge of political activism that we saw from the coal industry and coal companies and coal owners around the 2012 election, which became for them, a kind of waterloo battle, right? this idea that coal was going to be killed if barack obama was re-elected. absolutely, chris. and you know, this started, in fact, in 2010, when coal companies just packed money into john boehner s coffers, when his republicans, ultimately, took over the house. and it got even bigger in 2012, in terms of the industry s involvement on the congressional, as well as presidential levels. they hate the obama epa s regulations for power plants. they are still determined to stop them, even though they re already going through the process. you know, i am so co ....
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 virg ....
Chapt chapter 11 bankruptcy. leaking a toxic chemical into the water supply of 300 people in west virginia. the man identified by t the washington post as the owner is the same man who start add new company with the capacity to secure a big chunk of freedom industries assets while sidestepping much of its legal liability. even though the two companies are owned by someone named clifford forrest, the terms of the agreement were negotiated as arm s length. all this got us wanting to learn more about clifford for is. freedom industry s other than, first thing you know, he s a coal magnate. own s rosebud mining company, has more nan 1,200 employees and among the largest coal producers in ohio and pennsylvania, making him the apparent owner of a coal company and a company ta that deals in chemicals used by the coal industry. keep that connection in mind when you hear folks like west virginia governor earl ray ....
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 ....
Spill. let me make it very clear, that this was not a coal company incident. this was a chemical company so clearly, use carbon processing. well, that s a debate. but the point is, the incident happened at a chemical company. there s another fact we talk about cliff forrest. after supporting president obama in 2008, he became part of the group of wealthy coal country republicans who sought to take him down in 2012. even handing out stop the war on coal fire obama yard signs in his front office. and boehner claimed that no new action was needed, even as the water tainted by that spill was working its way downstream to cincinnati. a city just south of boehner s own ohio congressional district, prompting fishes there to close drinking water intakes as a precaution. meanwhile, back in washington, people still aren t sure if they should drink the water. asked today if the tap water was safe to drink, governor tomlin ....