This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Impunity in West Virginia As Criminal Law-Breaking Polluters Still Walk Free
Freedom Industries, which failed to show up at a Congressional hearing this week, knew about the leak of toxic chemicals but chose purposely not to report them – one of many company crimes for which managers should be behind bars.
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Exclusive: Why West Virginia No Longer Trusts Its Water, Government or Coal Industry
The spill is leading some state natives to question the fate of the coal industry that long sustained them economically – and causing organizers to take West Virigina’s subpar regulation of extractive industries into their own hands.
