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Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen , Tuesday 7 July 2009 at 11:26:00 The City of Green Angels? The City of Los Angeles last week committed to completely eliminate the use of electricity generated using coal by 2020, replacing the 40 per cent of the city's coal power... (link)

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