In Which a Thirsty Coal Exec Shows Us How NOT to Give an Interview
Here you won’t see a guy named Gary Southern tell local reporters how bad he feels for certain West Virginians, who have no access to safe drinking water after his company Freedom Industries just happened to spill a bunch of something called 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol into the Elk River last week.
The stuff may sound like an active ingredient in e-cigarettes, but it’s actually a chemical used to “wash” Freedom’s primary product: coal.
When the spill happened, West Virginia American Water Company president Jeff McIntyre warned 300,00 people: “Don’t make baby formula.
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