Smog sours many Poles on coal

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 The pressure is on Poland as host of this year’s global climate summit to start moving away from its heavy reliance on coal. But pressure is also coming from the country’s own residents, who are pushing back against high levels of smog. Rachel Waldholz reports from Kraków.

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