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Topic: Navajo Generating Station

FILE - This May 14, 2012, file photo, shows the Reid-Gardner power station on the Moapa Indian Reservation, in Moapa, Nev. Nevada’s main electric utility is agreeing to pay $4.3 million to clean up contamination at the coal-fired power plant near Las Vegas that neighboring Native Americans blame for residential health problems and pollution of a tributary to the Lake Mead reservoir and Colorado River. () (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

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Bobby Magill - Climate Central
In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, photo, rail cars filled with coal ash await transportation from the Dan River Steam Station in Eden, N.C. Duke Energy Corp. is digging up and hauling away the toxic coal residues two years after one of the worst coal-ash spills in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (AP)

Bobby Magill - Climate Central
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