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    With the shuttered Homer City coal plant in the background, at the Lucerne Reclamation project site in Pennsylvania, a worker moves coal refuse to be prepared for transport to be cleaned on June 12, 2024. The soil, contaminated by coal refuse, is cleaned and returned to the land where it is encased and covered with top soil and planted as a meadow.

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