Tag: China
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Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Squash Renewable Energy Age
To survive this era, humanity must become much smarter about this new kind of energy and then take the steps necessary to compress the third carbon era and hasten in the Age of Renewables before we burn ourselves off this planet.
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Paying With Plastic: Recycling Earns Public Transit Fares in China
Rather than having to implement and organize costly task forces to retrieve discarded garbage, China hopes to limit federal spending on resources recovery by collecting plastic bottles directly from citizens with the use of the subway recycling machine…
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Lawsuit Sets Precedent in Challenging Taxpayer Financing of Coal Exports
“Ex-Im Bank turned a blind eye to the toxic coal dust, heavy train traffic and disruptive noise that our members living near ports and railways experience on a daily basis.”
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China Gives Small-Scale Solar A Subsidy Boost
Small-scale solar is getting a big boost in China thanks to a new subsidy for distributed solar projects below 6 MW. The new solar subsidy works out to CNY0.42/kWh — or US$0.07/kWh — according to local press reports. The new subsidy is part of a larger push by the Chinese government — one aiming for…
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Growth of Global Solar and Wind Energy Continues to Outpace Other Technologies
Global solar and wind energy capacities continued to grow even though new investments in these energy sources declined during 2012.