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Petcoke Update

WTTW News | December 11, 2013, 12:17 pm

A huge lake freighter pulls up to a storage facility along the Calumet River, poised to haul away piles of the controversial petroleum byproduct called "petcoke." Elizabeth Brackett has the latest details.

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