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On Obamas India visit, climate-change deal unlikely as Modi boosts coal production
2015-01-25 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In the hilly Singrauli region of northern India, animals feed on ash-covered grass, smoke stings the eyes and burns the throat, and the reservoir is foul with toxins such as mercury and arsenic. Even the breakfast eggs are gray. The critically polluted landscape was once forest and fields of grain and mustard flowers. But after four decades of industrial development, this is Indias power hub. More than a dozen coal mines and power plants spread over two states generate a fifth of the countrys...
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