A haul truck dumps a load of coal into a hopper at the Cordero Rojo mine south of Gillette. Over the next two decades, coal will remain the biggest source of electricity despite its effect on global warming, government experts predict. Photo by Dustin Bleizeffer, Star-Tribune.
Meg Williams wets down an area around a friend's home along West Fork Road near Red Lodge, Mont., as plumes of smoke from the Cascade Fire billow from the Custer National Forest. Photo by Paul Ruhter, AP.
Jimmy Griner, a part-time farmer and retired college physics professor, holds up a jar of his 180-proof moonshine at the Georgia Bioenergy Conference in Tifton, Ga., Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006. The car to the left was powered by a blend of gasoline and his moonshine, made from fermented Georgia-grown wheat. Griner is licensed to make 10,000 gallons of the moonshine a year strictly for use as an alternative fuel. (AP Photo, Elliott Minor)
The Space Shuttle Discovery sits on Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, July 3, 2006. NASA engineers have discovered a crack in the foam insulation on the external fuel tank. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
An Apatosaurus skeleton stands nearly two stories high inside the University of Wyoming's S.H. Knight Geological Museum in Laramie. UW announced Thursday it had received a $570,000 gift to help create an endowment to support the museum, an amount to be matched with state funding. (Andy Carpenean/AP)
This Oct. 13, 2009 photo shows Bill Johnson standing in front of a biomass-fired boiler at Flambeau River Papers LLC in Park Falls, Wis. Johnson is president of Renewable Densified Fuels and son of William Johnson, CEO of Flambeau River Papers. Executives with the company are building a refinery that will convert waste wood to diesel fuel and waxes while providing heat for the paper mill. It is one of many new alternative energy ventures that will use biomass from forests in the Great Lakes region. (AP Photo/John Flesher)
This Oct. 13, 2009 photo shows an official at Flambeau River Papers LLC in Park Falls, Wisc., holding a pellet made with wood waste and a small amount of plastic binder. Operators burn the pellets instead of coal to reduce air emissions. Their new venture, Flambeau River BioFuels, will use this type of woody biomass to produce diesel fuel and waxes while supplying heat for the paper mill. (AP Photo/John Flesher)
An Apatosaurus skeleton stands nearly two stories high inside the University of Wyoming's S.H. Knight Geological Museum in Laramie. UW announced Thursday it had received a $570,000 gift to help create an endowment to support the museum, an amount to be matched with state funding. (Andy Carpenean/AP)
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