The Coal Quandary

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By Keith Kloor
Mar 28, 2014 12:44 AMNov 20, 2019 1:26 AM

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In the late 2000s, the notion of "clean coal" was widely panned. As Bryan Walsh wrote in a 2009 Time piece:

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