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China sets national coal use target tackle air pollution
2013-09-12 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China will aim to cut total coal consumption to below 65 percent of total primary energy use by 2017 as part of a comprehensive new plan to tackle air pollution, the government said on Thursday. China will also stop approving new thermal power plants in key industrial areas such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the north and the Yangtze and Pearl River delta regions in the east and southeast. In a notice posted on its official website (www.gov.cn), the Chinese government said it would...
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Coal Emissions in China Slash 5.5 Years off Life Expectancy, Study Says
2013-07-09 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The life expectancy of people living in northern China is 5 ½ years less than in southern China as a result of the north's notoriously bad air pollution, largely due to the burning of coal, according to a new study. In an analysis of air quality recordings from 90 Chinese cities from 1981 to 2000 and mortality data from the 1990s, a team of researchers estimated that high air pollution will cost the roughly 500 Getty Images million people living north of the Huai River a combined 2.5 billion...
Wood Mackenzie: China thermal coal demand to double to nearly 7btpa by 2030
2013-06-04 18:30:17| Green Car Congress
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China plans tougher quality standards for coal to tackle pollution
2013-05-23 13:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China may impose higher quality standards for imported and locally traded coal to cut air pollution, two sources said, in a move that could slash imports while boosting the fortunes of a faltering domestic industry. The National Energy Administration (NEA) held a meeting with major state-owned coal producers earlier this month to discuss the new standards, one of the sources said, adding top producer Shenhua Coal, China Coal, Datong Coal, Shanxi Coking Coal Group and Jizhong Energy Group were...
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Nine reasons China wont need enough coal to justify coal ports in the Pacific Northwest
2013-02-27 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: U.S. coal companies claim that exporting low-grade coal from the Powder River Basin through ports in the Pacific Northwest to Asia is big business, a sure thing, easily worth the pollution and disruption the new coal infrastructure it would cause. Their case to investors, local communities, and state regulators is based on a simple premise: China`s demand for coal is steady and rising. And that does seem to be the conventional wisdom. But there are reasons to think the premise is false, and that...
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