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An Alabama Coal Plant Once Again Nabs the Dubious Title of the Nation’s Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluter
A single Jefferson County power plant pollutes more than some entire countries.
By Lee Hedgepeth
In West Jefferson, everything happens in the shadow of Alabama Power.
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