Koch Coke: Detroit Gets A Mountain of the Dirtiest Residue of the Dirtiest Oil

If you need another reason for fear and loathing of Keystone, there's this: Towering over the Detroit River is a three-story, block-long pile of petroleum coke, the toxic, high-carbon, ever-increasing - Canada has 79.8 million tons stockpiled - waste byproduct of refining tar sands oil. T he owners of the pile are the Koch brothers, who every year deliver millions of tons of coke, too dirty to be burned in the U.S., to countries like China and Mexico with looser environmental laws. The Koch brothers, it seems, didn't even get permits from state or city officials. If Keystone goes ahead, look for a toxic mountain near you.

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