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And the Mining Seems So Safe and Clean
Congress considers legislation that would give coal a boost |
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29 May 2007 |
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| And the Mining Seems So Safe and Clean Congress considers legislation that would give coal a boost What if there was a liquid fuel with the potential to produce nearly twice as many greenhouse gases as petroleum? And it would cost nearly four times as much to build a processing plant for this fuel as for petroleum? You'd say no thanks. But Congress is saying yes please to this flawed fuel, commonly known ... |
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| Topics: climate, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy, news (all these topics) |
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