Indonesia tries to clamp down on coal sector’s worst excesses

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By Morgan Erickson-DavisOct 16, 2014, 12:00 pm35 pts
Out of the jungles of East Borneo in Indonesia comes the fire that fuels Asia’s burgeoning economies: coal. Miners dig deep open pits, clearing forests and farmlands to extract coal from thick black seams, which is then crushed and loaded onto trucks and barges for shipment to China, India, Japan and other…

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