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Obama's Pet Power Plant Gets Stimulus Cash

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 16, 2009 9:15 AM CDT

(Newser) – When the stimulus was in the works, President Obama went to great lengths to show he was sacrificing his top pet project—a clean-coal power plant to be built in Illinois—on the altar of fiscal responsibilities. “It shows that we’re serious,”...   Read full story »

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