China: Govt fast-tracks clean coal spending
Age: The federal government has ramped up its spending on climate change to an unprecedented $2.3 billion - but its decision to fast-track clean coal over renewable energy could provoke environmentalists. The four years of spending plans makes good on the government's election promise to overhaul the climate change budget. The fund includes $500 million for clean coal and $500 million for renewable energy, both to be spent over seven years. But the clean coal funds will be ...
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