China leads the way on cleaner coal even as it burns more

Fast Company: China fires up an average of one new coal-fired plant each week to fuel its blistering economic growth. In the U.S., despite growing opposition and the flood of cheap "fracked" natural gas, the Department of Energy says coal "will continue to provide the majority of our Nation's baseload generation capacity" in the near future. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels soar beyond 400 parts per million, the highest levels in at least 800,000 years, and beyond what some scientists believe may be a safe...

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