When it rains, it pours…on the US coal industry. Today a major chemical supplier to coal companies, Freedom Industries, leaked 2,000 – 5,000 gallons of a hazardous chemical – 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol – which contaminated the Elk River and 300,000 Charleston, W. Virginia residents’ drinking water. The situation reportedly forced school and business closures and caused… Keep reading →