The Broken Empire - Pollution
 
 
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Donetsk, Ukraine. 1992 - A coal miner scrubs down after a day in the pits. Though relatively well-paid, they risk gas explosions and face frequent equipment breakdown to extract Ukraine's high grade coal. One miner, it is estimated, dies for every million tons of coal mined - 10 times the fatality rate of underground coal miners in the U.S.A.
 
 
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