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Foreign imports of coal could drive energy prices up

Posted in Coal, tagged China, Coal, Texas on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

China and India may increase imports of coal by 78 percent to 337 million metric tons next year, with China buying more than it exports next year. This would further drive up prices from the highest in two years as the imports divert supplies from Europe to Asia. China added about 51 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity last year, [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged bay area houston, brains and eggs, cheney, China, City Council, eye on williamson, flower mound, lewisville, off the kuff, rove, south texas chisme, texas cloverleaf, texas progressive alliance, whosplayin on March 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance heads into March Madness with its own bracket of news and links for the week. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders how Republicans can be so violently against having services they desperately need? Off the Kuff analyzed county returns in the primaries for Governor, Lite Guv, and the Commissioners. When are [...]

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Another Reason to Support a 2,000 MW Distributed Solar Goal

Posted in Global Warming, tagged China, Pasadena, roger efird, solar, solar cells, sunpower, suntech, Texas, texas energy future, tom werner on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve said before that if Texas adopts a policy goal of 2,000 MW of distributed solar by 2020 (the equivalent of solar on 500,000 homes), the state will be able to create as many as 21,500 jobs, stabilize energy prices, and avoid 29 million tons of climate change pollution. But wait, there’s more! At the [...]

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Coal Hurts Babies

Posted in Coal, tagged 81st legislature, birth defects, carbon caucus, carbon management caucus, China, china daily, Coal, coal plant, environmental pollution, grist, penn state, shanxi on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A week and a half ago I sat in on the first Carbon Management Caucus meeting of the 81st Legislature and listened to a professor from Penn State tell legislators, their staffers, and a few intrepid members of the general public that “we need coal, coal isn’t going anywhere, in China they’re using tons and [...]

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If You Lead, They Will Follow

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Barack Obama, Carbon Dioxide, China, climate change, developing nations, emissions, Global Warming, green new deal, grist, India, japan, leadership, prime minister, stimulus package, taro aso on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Throughout the global warming debate, I have often heard an argument I like to call “the China cop-out.” It goes somewhere along the lines of, “Developing nations like China and India are growing so quickly, adding so many new coal-fired power plants, and emitting so much carbon dioxide that it isn’t worth it for the [...]

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Hey, let’s destabilize a nuclear power because of global warming!

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Afghanistan, China, environmental justice, environmental refugees, Global Warming, Himalayan glacier melt, India, Nuclear, Pakistan, terrorism, water, water wars on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A truly frightening article from The International News and their Karachi (Pakistan) bureau: Global warming and the ongoing thinning of Tibetan glaciers will result in as many as 15 million ‘environmental refugees’ in South Asia in the near future, said Chairperson Hisaar Foundation and member of Stockholm-based Global Water Partnership Technical Committee, Simi Kamal. Full [...]

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