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China halts new coal-fired power plants abroad in boost for climate action

Originally published: South China Morning Star on September 22, 2021 by Echo Xie (more by South China Morning Star) (Posted Sep 29, 2021)

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China would stop building new coal-fired power plants abroad, marking a historic shift away from the fossil fuel before the United Nations climate summit in November.
China’s energy watchdog under fire over pollution failures

Originally published: South China Morning Star on February 1, 2021 by Echo Xie (more by South China Morning Star) (Posted Feb 11, 2021)

China’s energy regulator has come under rare fire from a team of central government inspectors over the agency’s lax enforcement of environmental standards.