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China pledges $275 billion over 5 years to cut record air pollution
2013-08-19 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last week China announced it was going to spend over a quarter of a trillion dollars ($275 billion) to fight rampant and life-threatening pollution in its urban centers over the next five years. Recent decades of unparalleled economic growth has taken a drastic environmental toll in China, including record air pollution levels in Beijing. The announcement follows other news, including that the Chinese government has recently scrapped a massive 2,000 megawatt coal plant project near the cities of...
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