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A recent story by David Templeton in the Post-Gazette said: Residents of Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania are exposed to higher percentages of toxic-air pollution from coal-fired power plants than other states, according to an analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

In its second edition of "Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate our Air and States," the council also found that coal- and oil-fired power plants still contribute 44 percent of all the toxic air pollution reported to the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory.