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Author of "big coal, the dirty secret behind america's energy future." thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> on this reuters story, there are now people who are former workers for massey, some family members of people who have worked for massey who are willing to put their names to their quoets and talk about the company being dangerous. is this new? >> it is new, because for a while, for a long time there's been a code of silence around massey energy, because they're such a big coal operator in that region, in appalachia, if you bad mouth massey, tell the truth about the mines, t...

Such a big coal operator in that region, in appalachia, if you bad mouth massey, tell the truth about what's going on in the mines then you don't have a job. but i think what's happening, we're having a building, obvious anger about what's gone on here. massey plead guilty to ten criminal counts, charges in the air coma mine in 2006 where two miners were killed. there was a lot of anger about that. they were found to have falsified the mine logs in that mine. there's a lot of anger around massey's mountain top removal mining, flattening large areas of appalachia, a lot of water -- clean water ...