Coal Use & Air Pollution in China, India, UK, & USA

This is a repository of publications, news, and information on coal use and related air pollution/climate change discussions in China, India, and USA, and updated periodically.

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• China outpaces U.S in cleaner coal power plants (New York Times, May, 2009)
• China to shut small oil refineries and metal smelters (Bloomberg, May, 2009)
• How much fossil fuel can we burn? (Guardian, May, 2009)
• Coal fired power plants: The writing on the wall (Economist, May, 2009)
• U.S coal power plants scuttled (Reuters, May, 2009)
• Clean air act and climate change: Killing old power plants (Gazette, May, 2009)
• Climate countdown: Half a trillion tonnes of carbon left to burn (Guardian, April, 2009)
• World can burn 25 percent of oil and coal "safely" (Reuters, April, 2009)
• '60 Minutes' blows on coal segment (AlterNet, April, 2009)
• Coal: Capturing the future (Guardian, April, 2009)
• 'Clean' coal plants get go ahead in UK (BBC, April, 2009)
• Bound to burn (City Journal, Spring, 2009)
• In areas fueled by coal, climate bill sends chills (New York Times, April, 2009)
• E.ON's 'integrated' technology claim is a shameless spin (Guardian, April, 2009)
• Debating a clean coal future (Council for Foreign Relations, March, 2009)
• The clean coal myth (Market Watch, March, 2009)
  
• Plea for clean coal investment (BBC, March, 2009)
• Are we breeding ourselves to extinction (AlterNet, March, 2009)
• U.S Energy department said to Err on coal project (New York Times, March, 2009)
• It's time to clear the air - Polluting industries should pay (Guardian, March, 2009)
• What to do about coal? (Scientific American, March, 2009)
• Research matters for clean technology fund (CARMA, March, 2009)
• Cleaning up the dirtiest fossil fuel (Scientific American, March, 2009)
  
• Why I'll get arrested to the stop burning coal (Yale e360, February, 2009)
• Doing nothing is too costly a solution (Carbon Based, March, 2009)
  
• Carbon capture - scrubbing the skies (Economist, March, 2009)
• The illusion of clean coal (Economist, March, 2009)
• Coal and climate change - Can king coal clean up (Ethical Corporation, March, 2009)
  
• Coal becomes future fuel (US DoE, December, 2008)
  
• 'Clean' coal plant canceled - Hydrogen economy too (Scientific American, February, 2008)

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