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Smokestack city: An industrial neighborhood decides it has had enough
2013-12-10 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Charles Graham approaches the front porch of a home perched a block up the hill from his school, Benjamin Franklin High, in South Baltimore. From that porch, you can see the school, and in the background, a row of chemical plants and coal transfer stations that provide most of the jobs here. The skyline envisages a school-to-polluting-plant pipeline - a line Graham hopes to rise above by urging cleaner energy projects in this place he calls home. The 17-year-old environmental activist knocks on...
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