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Coal is transported through massive slurry pipelines

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Instead of putting rocks in a truck, engineers just grind coal into a filthy black sludge, mix it with water, and pump it through pipes for hundreds of miles. It is basically an extremely toxic smoothie.

Coal is transported through massive slurry pipelines
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