Big Coal Takes a Page from Big Tobacco October 9, 2014

Chris Haye’s has had a very useful and worthwhile series on Coal, Appalachia, and the changing economy in recent days. Above, the political and social parallels between Big Coal and Big Tobacco.

Below, an interview with Don Blankenship, the “Dark Lord” of the Appalachian Coal fields.

Don seems somewhat medicated in the clip above, but stays on doggedly on message.