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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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