Chicagoans fight the Kochs and their petcoke

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By John UptonMay 1, 2014, 8:21 pm84 pts
When tar-sands oil is refined, a nasty byproduct called petroleum coke, or petcoke, is produced — thick, dusty gunk that is increasingly being stored in huge piles along Midwestern rivers. On Chicago’s Southeast Side, unfortunate neighbors have been fighting to get rid of three such piles, noting that the…

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