Photos: (TOP) Austin Robbs and his dog Snacks catch the last act of the sunset show above Ventura, California. MARY ROBBS (Middle) PRIMALOFT, INC. (Middle) TIM DAVIS (Middle) JAMES A. RODRIGUEZ (Bottom) A coal mining operation might look cleaner covered in snow, until you discover the coal dust buried throughout the snowpack, dirtying nearby cars and houses, poisoning local fish populations and polluting the air. Yet, here at Teck Resources’ Greenhills
and Fording River mines the coal extracted is labeled “clean” because it isn’t burned for energy. Leah Evans and Dave Quinn overlook a small section of the 6-mile-wide coalscape. Elkford, British Columbia. KARI MEDIG |
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