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China Reduces Coal-Fired Power Capacity Amid Clean Energy Concerns
2016-04-27 13:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: On Monday, China's top economic planner laid out new measures to curb green house emissions brought by coal-fired powerplants in the notoriously polluted country. In a release, the central government announced they are banning construction of new coal-fired power plants in areas with surplus power, even postponing construction of some approved plants in 13 provinces until at least 2018. New York Times notes that such big chunk of power - 105 gigawatts - those plants would have been able to...
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