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Red River air rivalry has Oklahoma and Texas battling over air quality and coal plants
Posted by New Sok: Michael Baker on December 25th, 2010
New Sok: Red River air rivalry has Oklahoma and Texas battling over air quality and coal plants
The approval of about a dozen new coal-fired power plants in Texas has Oklahoma officials and environmental groups worried about the effects on the Sooner State's air quality.
This Oklahoma-Texas rivalry -- with a bit of Nebraska mixed in -- has to do with what blows across the Red River.
Texas environmental regulators earlier this month awarded air permits to an Omaha, Neb., developer of a cleaner coal-fired...
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China to spend $30 billion on water conservation in 2011
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 25th, 2010
Reuters: The Chinese government is expected to spend about 200 billion yuan ($30.10 billion) on water conservation projects in 2011, a tenth more than in 2010, the state-run China Daily reported on Saturday.
Priority will be given to improving irrigation to ensure grain security and projects to combat drought and floods, the newspaper said.
It cited Water Resources Minister Chen Lei as telling a government meeting that some of the investment would come from a 10 percent levy on income earned from the...