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China slashes spending on new fossil-fuel power plants
2014-05-01 14:36:54| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China added nearly 40 per cent less coal- and gas-fired power capacity in the first quarter than it did a year ago mainly due to stronger pollution controls and slower economic growth, a senior government advisor said on Wednesday. China, the biggest global emitter of gases that cause climate change and plagued by air quality that causes half a million deaths a year, consumes nearly half the world's coal. But recent data released by the National Energy Administration (NEA) showed that newly...
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