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You're listening to Short Wave from npr.
Hey, shortwavers.
Emily Kwong here, and I am joined by Planet Money producer Willa Rubin.
Willa, hey, what's up?
Hey, Emily.
Hey, Shortwave.
I come to you with a story.
All right, let's hear it.
So about two hours southeast of Berlin, there's a city called Kotbas.
It's pretty small.
About 100,000 people live there.
For context, this is in eastern Germany, near the Polish border.
And so historically, this part of Germany had a lot of lignite mining.
This is a fossil fuel that is dark brown.
It's soft, kind of like an intermediate between hard coal and petroleum coke.
Oh, interesting.