Coal Use Grows Despite Warming Worries

October 28th, 2007 in Space & Earth / Environment
Coal Use Grows Despite Warming Worries (AP)

Coal workers load up a truck with coal in Jungar Qi, a bleak boomtown, nestled in the sand-sculpted ravines of Inner Mongolia, China, Wednesday, May 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

(AP) -- Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.

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