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Idaho’s Snake River dams could help phase out fossil fuels

Deep in the bowels of Idaho’s Brownlee Dam, Neal Lincoln is ready to offer a demonstration. Almost 40 feet below the surface of the Snake River — whose waters originate in Yellowstone National Park, then cascade down the Rocky Mountains and course across Idaho — Lincoln makes a call to the power plant control room.

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Burst dams and ignored warnings epitomize Libya failures

BEIRUT —  Amid the search for thousands of people washed away when two storm-swollen dams burst, amid the burials and bewilderment in the Libyan city of Derna, sorrow has given way to rage. More than a week after Storm Daniel punched through the dams made of compacted clay, with the death toll at anywhere from 4,000

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