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Smoke rises from a coal-fired power plant on the Yangtze river in Nantong in eastern China's Jiangsu province. AP
Smoke rises from a coal-fired power plant on the Yangtze river in Nantong in eastern China's Jiangsu province. AP
As China makes strides on climate change, new potent emissions emerge
Perfluorocarbons, which have global warming potential 'thousands of times that of CO2', rise even as Beijing pours money into renewables