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Monday, May 14, 2007

Feds Subsidize Coal Plants in Rural America


A Depression-era program to bring electricity to rural areas is using taxpayer money to provide billions of dollars in low-interest loans to build coal plants even as Congress seeks ways to limit greenhouse gas emissions. (Washington Post, Monday)

Special interests rule.

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