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<div class="content"><h2><span style="background-color: #ffffff"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="color: #808080">Myth #1:</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"> </span></span><span style="color: #000000">"</span>America
has more than 200 years of available coal reserves.<span style="color: #000000">"</span> The United States is the ‘Saudi Arabia’ of coal.</h2>
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<a href="http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/7/13/231330/588">As author Jeff Goodell reveals</a> in his book “Big Coal,” the
claim that the <st1:country-region w:</div>
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