Koch Brothers' Tar Sands Waste Petcoke Piles Spread to Chicago

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By Indra DasOct 24, 2013, 2:51 pm103 pts
After using Detroit as a toxic waste dumping ground, the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers are now piling their petroleum coke from tar sands oil refineries in Chicago. Kiley Kroh of ThinkProgress writes that petroleum coke, or petcoke, "is building up along Chicago's Calumet River and alarming…

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