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Bill Gates pushes coal

Cascade Investment Management, Gates' personal investment company, is the largest stakeholder (9 percent) in a controversial coal project in Minnesota. Interestingly, Gates' friend billionaire Warren Buffett recently canceled six planned coal projects. As for whether coal can be produced without contributing to climate change, Wikipedia says "there are no coal-fired power plants in commercial production which capture all carbon dioxide emissions, so the process is theoretical and experimental and thus a subject of feasibility or pilot studies."

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