Wednesday, Aug 12th
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Environment Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal
WASHINGTON — For years, scientists have had a straightforward idea for taming global warming. They want to take the carbon dioxide that spews from coal-burning power plants and pump it back into the ground.
...But it has become clear in recent months that the nation’s effort to develop the technique is lagging badly.
 Evacuations have been ordered for areas along California’s famous Big Sur coast as a wildfire burns... |
 Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, has plummeted to its lowest water level... | ||
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 Construction crews building a border wall in New Mexico were ordered to stop drilling new wells... |
