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Environment & Energy

marmar

(77,072 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2020, 11:10 AM Jun 2020

Black Skies Over Siberia: the Most Polluted Major City in Russia

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Black Skies Over Siberia: the Most Polluted Major City in Russia (Original Post) marmar Jun 2020 OP

Krasnoyarsk produces aluminum and other metals. hunter Jun 2020 #1

hunter

(38,309 posts)

1. Krasnoyarsk produces aluminum and other metals.

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Mon Jun 22, 2020, 09:36 AM

Jun 2020

Despite having the fifth largest hydroelectric capacity in the world coal is burned to power these industries and the city itself.

Political corruption makes it very difficult or impossible to enforce environmental regulations.

Is that what the modern Republican Party wants for the United States?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnoyarsk

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