Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most costly -- and crucial -- steps in cleaning up coal boilers is curbing sulfur emissions. They combine with water in the atmosphere to create sulfuric acid and thus produce acid rain. Yet only one Chinese power plant boasts desulfurization equipment. China Huaneng Group, the market- oriented Chinese company that built the plant, was able to cover the cost of installing the antipollution devices only because the government agreed to raise electricity rates to users, according to Huaneng president Wang Chuanjian...
...coal reserves to natural gas, which delivers much more energy for the amount of CO2 released. The process, though, is expensive. The U.S. Department of Energy asked Congress this year for a $50 million grant that would be earmarked to help China build a demonstration coal-gasification power plant, but the appropriation has not been approved. By contrast, Japan is underwriting an environmental center in Beijing as a showcase for antipollution technology...
...inspection by Harvard's Environmental Health and Safety Office last Monday found the plant to be clean, according to the University statement. Freeman said he finds the preliminary test results "unsatisfactory" because they are not conclusive. He said he hopes for more specific answers in six weeks...
...plant growing at an incredible rate," said William J. Ouchark, manager of networking services...
...inherited from the former Soviet Union, but it had also taken charge of several nuclear stockpiles. U.S. officials were concerned that the cash-starved former Soviet republic would be unable to safeguard the dangerous material. The nuclear stockpile will be stored at the Department of Energy's Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee...