Washington
Post: China faces an unenviable dilemma: whether to keep
building factories that provide jobs for its citizens yet
pollute the environment or whether to institute pollution
controls that would mitigate environmental damage yet imperil
industrial growth. As Juliet Eilperin reports, China is
increasingly curbing its emissions, including greenhouse gases.
She writes:
Nationwide, between 2006 and 2009 China replaced 7 percent of its electricity generation capacity with cleaner power plants, according to the Joint US–China Collaboration on Clean Energy.
In the past several months, Chinese officials have intensified their focus, announcing they will replace outdated equipment in 2000 power plants and spend $75 billion a year on clean energy technology, a figure triple the size of the [US] Energy Department's entire budget. And they are quietly being trained by American and European experts on how to trade emissions credits within a given industry to cut greenhouse gases.
