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China coal emissions responsible for 'quarter of a million premature deaths'
2013-12-12 04:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Emissions from coal plants in China were responsible for a quarter of a million premature deaths in 2011 and are damaging the health of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, according to a new study. The study by a US air pollution expert, commissioned by Greenpeace, comes as many areas in northern and eastern China have been experiencing hazardous levels of air pollution in recent weeks. In some eastern cities including Shanghai, levels were off the index that tracks dangerous pollution,...
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Make Coal Workable With This Clean Energy Play
2013-12-12 02:23:56| Waste Management - Topix.net
When it comes to clean air, or even tolerable air, coal-powered plants, particularly utilities, are seen as obstacles that must be overcome.
Coal Plant Retirements Likely to Alter Future Power Prices
2013-12-11 16:50:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The Brattle Group has released a report that examines the likely causes and magnitudes of the feedback effects of coal plant retirements on short- and long-term wholesale electricity prices. read more
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Powder River Basin: Coal on the move
2013-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: The broad high prairie of eastern Wyoming and southern Montana was once the bottom of a shallow sea, a rich subtropical swampland for millions of years. Layers of plants began forming peat beds 60 million years ago, later to be buried and compressed into bituminous coal strata. The Missouri River became the dominant stream as the Northern Rockies formed, with tributaries like the Yellowstone, Powder and Cheyenne rivers running north and east to meet it. Their erosion eventually left coal seams...
US Exports to China Increasing Barrels of Petcoke, a Fuel Dirtier Than Coal
2013-12-05 09:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Even as China is investing more money than any other country in developing renewable electricity, its consumption of traditional fossil fuels is also rising steeply. Each year, roughly half the coal burned in the world is burned in China. In an effort to meet its fast-growing energy demands, China has become, in effect, simultaneously the greenest and the sootiest nation on earth. But coal isnt even the dirtiest fuel burned in China. According to ICIS, a petrochemical market research firm, Chinas...
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