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Effort to ‘green’ U.S. Capitol complicated by coal
Filed: May 10th 2007: US

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to make the U.S. Capitol complex more environmentally friendly is being hampered by the reluctance of lawmakers from coal-producing states to implement changes at the complex’s coal-burning power plant.

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