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November 21, 2012, 7:41 am1 Commenthttp://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/king-coal-alive-and-kicking/#postComment King Coal, Alive and Kicking By THE NEW YORK TIMEShttp://green.blogs.nytimes.com/author/the-new-york-times/ [image: The lion's share of new coal plants planned worldwide would be built in China and India.]
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The lion’s share of new coal plants planned worldwide would be built in China and India.
Some 1,200 new coal-fired power plantshttp://pdf.wri.org/global_coal_risk_assessment.pdfare being planned across the globe despite concerns about greenhouse gas emissions from such generating stations, the most polluting type, the World Resources Institute estimates. Two-thirds of them would operate in China and India, it says. [World Resources Institute]
The United States and Mexico will share in both surpluses and water shortages under an accord overhauling how the two countries manage water from the Colorado Riverhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/us/us-and-mexico-sign-deal-on-managing-colorado-river.html?ref=world. The river provides water to more than 33 million people in seven states and in Mexico. [The New York Times]
Greenpeace looks into the use of hazardous chemicalshttp://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/toxics/Water%202012/ToxicThreads01.pdfin the production of global fashion brands, testing 141 items of clothing that it purchased last spring. Nonylphenol ethoxylates, or NPEs, were found in nearly two-thirds of the items, it says. [Greenpeace].
Early indications suggest that the World Trade Organization has problems with Ontario’s clean energy programhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/11/19/wto-green-energy.html, which requires that at least 50 percent of the materials in wind and solar projects initiated this year be made in the province. [CBC]