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Chinese utility tries to join electricity pioneers
BEIJING - As companies abroad slash spending to ride out a global slump, China's biggest utility is pouring money into the multibillion-dollar field of electric power transmission.
Nations:Brazil China India South Africa Italy U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-02-21
Greenhouse gas emissions increase in US
WASHINGTON - The amount of U.S. greenhouse gases flowing into the atmosphere, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, increased last year by 1.4 percent after a decline in 2006, the Energy Department reported Wednesday.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-12-03
Mandates driving surge to the river for hydropower
HAMILTON, Ohio - Many decades ago, cost-conscious Henry Ford turned to hydroelectric plants to power his car factories like the one by the Great Miami River, near this Cincinnati suburb. That assembly plant is long gone, but the power plant and the technology behind it isn't.
Nations:U.S. Mexico Source:(AP)
2008-12-01
Damming China's River Wild
Yu Guifu's farmland is still above water, and for that he can thank China's environmental movement. For years power companies have longed to dam the Nu River, which flows flat and olive drab below the fields where Yu and his family earn $1,200 a year growing corn, rice and strawberries. So far they haven't succeeded. "That river hasn't changed in my lifetime," says Yu, 50, as he rolls a cigarette and squishes his bare feet in a soft embankment. "But I don't know what will happen next."
Nations:China People:Hu Jintao Activities:China Three Gorge Dam Project Source:(Time)
2008-06-11
China orders budgets cut to feed $10B relief fund
A woman trapped in a tunnel at a power plant was rescued nine days after an earthquake struck central China -- the only person found alive Wednesday -- while the government ordered budgets slashed to free money for relief efforts.
Nations:China People:Deng Yaping Activities:2008 China Earthquake
2008-05-21
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