Coal Use Grows Despite Warming Worries

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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 PhotoElizabeth Dalziel)
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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