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Piles of Midwest 'Petcoke' Raising Residents' Ire

2013-11-27 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: The images are startling. Billowing black clouds darken the daytime sky as wind-driven grit pelts homes and cars and forces bewildered residents to take cover. The onslaught, captured in photos and video footage from Detroit and Chicago this year, was caused by the same thing: brisk winds sweeping across huge black piles of petroleum coke, or "petcoke," a powdery byproduct of oil refining that's been accumulating along Midwest shipping channels and sparking a new wave of health and environmental...

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