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China Announces Plan to Improve Efficiency of Coal Plants to Reduce Pollution

Benjie Batanes   |

Dec 03, 2015 06:41 AM EST

The Chinese central government has announced on December 2 that it will start taking steps to improve the efficiency of coal plants in order to reduce their level of pollution by around 60 percent. Environmental regulators estimate that as much as 180 million metric tons of carbon dioxide produced by the nation's coal plants could be eliminated in the next five years.