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Plant Closure In Montana Could Create Climate Change Refugees

caption: Strip-mining spoil piles in background in Colstrip, Montana, June 1973.
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Strip-mining spoil piles in background in Colstrip, Montana, June 1973.
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David Hyde speaks with Montana Public Radio news director Eric Whitney about how a coal town in Colstrip, Montana could be shuttered by climate change.

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