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Kicking the Coal Habit – Another Reason Why China Will Adopt a Carbon Intensity Reduction Target

September 24, 2009

Posted by Barbara Finamore in Greening China

Tags:
china, climate, climatechange, climatenegotiations, coal, copenhagencountdown, mercury

Yesterday my colleague Jake Schmidt and I spoke with WNYC's Brian Lehrer, who asked me to evaluate the significance of President Hu Jintao's speech at Tuesday's UN Climate Summit (you can listen to the interview here). Was his announcement that...continued

Clean coal? Not in clean conscience

February 5, 2009

Posted by Barbara Finamore in Greening China

Tags:
china, coal, dirtycoal

Most people are now aware of the 1.1 billion gallons of toxic coal plant sludge that escaped from the Kingston coal plant and made its way through the Tennessee Valley late on December 22nd. This incident caused tremendous damage and...continued

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Barbara Finamore
China Program Director
Beijing
Came to NRDC in 1981 and spent five years suing the Department of Energy to...
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