Xinhua BEIJING, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — China will expand its installed hydropower capacity to 300 million kilowatts by 2015 from the current 200 million in an effort to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the country’s top energy official said here Wednesday. Zhang Guobao, director of the National Energy Administration (NEA), told the popular web port Sina.com [...]
China points to farms as major pollution risk
AFP BEIJING — China on Tuesday named pollution from farms as a major cause for concern, as the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases released its first nationwide survey on sources of environmental degradation. “There were some outstanding problems identified by this national census such as the high contribution to water pollution by agricultural sources,” [...]
