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Amak8

(142 posts) Mon Oct 1, 2012, 06:16 AM Oct 2012

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Potomac River coal plant in Alexandria, VA shutting down today (Original Post) Amak8 Oct 2012 OP

chicago just shut done the last two in the city madrchsod Oct 2012 #1

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1. chicago just shut done the last two in the city

Mon Oct 1, 2012, 07:45 AM

Oct 2012

there`s several others in the suburbs but they`ll be shut down in the near future.

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2. New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg stood on a boat on the Potomac in front of the GenOn plant...

Mon Oct 1, 2012, 07:55 AM

Oct 2012

... and donated $50 million from his charitable foundation to support the Sierra Club’s efforts to close the country’s coal-fired plants.