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Headline	Author	Published	Section
China's immoral energy policy: Part I China's coal policy is breathtaking (literally)	Joseph Romm	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Yes, America's climate policy is immoral. But that doesn't make China's rapacious coal-plant building moral. The N.Y. Times has published the sobering numbers, which bear repeating: The country built 114,000 megawatts of fossil-fuel-based generating capacity last year alone, almost all coal-fired, and is on course to complete 95,000 megawatts more this year. For comparison, Britain has 75,000 megawatts in operation, built over a span of decades. China is now t ...
Topics: renewable energy, nuclear power, coal, politics, energy, China (all these topics)

You're a Good Man, Lester Brown An interview with the founder of Worldwatch and Earth Policy Institute	David Roberts	06 Mar 2006	Main Dish
There are few titans remaining in the environmental world -- figures that command respect not only inside the movement but in the larger global political milieu as well. Lester Brown is one of them. In 1974, he founded the Worldwatch Institute, one of the first think tanks to focus on the global environmental situation (its agenda-setting yearly reports, State of th ...
Topics: China, climate, interview, Lester Brown, nuclear power, population, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Loan Arranger U.S. plans to subsidize four new Chinese nuke plants		01 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Loan Arranger U.S. plans to subsidize four new Chinese nuke plants A nearly $5 billion proposed loan package from the U.S. government to British-owned Westinghouse Electric Corp. to build four massive nuclear reactors in China is encountering a flurry of objections. The objections are not about the nuclear waste that would result, or reactors' vulnerability to te ...
Topics: business, China, Dennis Kucinich, news, nuclear power, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

The Maoist That Roared China tries to balance need for energy with environmental caution		19 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Maoist That Roared China tries to balance need for energy with environmental caution China's economy, as we report with obsessive regularity, is growing like gangbusters, and with it grows the country's need for energy. One response to this need is an aggressive push to develop nuclear energy: Conservative estimates project the commissioning of two new reactors a year through 2020, quadrupling nuclear output to 16 billion kilowat ...
Topics: China, nuclear power (all these topics)

Pebbles: Bam, Bam! China Gears Up to Build New, Smaller Nuke Plants		03 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Pebbles: Bam, Bam! China Gears Up to Build New, Smaller Nuke Plants China's economy is expanding faster than Bruce Banner with road rage, straining against the limits of its current capacity for creating or importing energy -- and pumping out some of the world's worst air pollution. The plan? Go nuclear. This year China announced its intention to build 30 new nuclear power facilities by 2020, and a team of Chinese scientists told B ...
Topics: China, nuclear power (all these topics)

Pro-fusion		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Pro-fusion The U.S. and China have officially joined the quest to develop fusion power, which proponents say could be an affordable, eco-friendly alternative to existing energy sources. The International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor is the largest global science project after the International Space Station. China, the U.S., Canada, the ...
Topics: Asia, Canada, China, climate, energy, European Union, green living, Japan, nuclear power, Russia, United States (all these topics)

The Strong and Short of It		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Strong and Short of It In a sign of increasing international concern about the ecological challenges posed by China, one of the world's most prominent greens has moved to Beijing and set up shop as an environmental consultant. For more than three decades, Canadian Maurice Strong has been a major player in global diplomacy, environmental and otherwise; earlier ...
Topics: Asia, business, China, green living, news, nuclear power, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

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