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  1. When Americans consume goods, they have 2 pay 4 pollution cost in making the goods, says Locke (clarification be damned) http://bit.ly/FfJxy
  2. Sixfold increase in "health-threatening pollution levels" measured in Hong Kong; China not the one to blame http://bit.ly/3wlQ7B (Reuters)
  3. Obama's cabinet members Chu and Locke to visit Beijing this week to talk about environment, climate change http://bit.ly/wbQpS (Reuters)
  4. "Carbon footprint" is now an official entry in Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary bit.ly/nP9td (AP via Google)
  5. PetroChina receives approval to buy stake in Osaka refinery, not long after SPC stake purchase http://bit.ly/tnBso (Reuters)
  6. China offers 3-pt plan for fight against climate change, stresses collaboration and ec. dev. as foundation http://bit.ly/Wy7Au (CCTV w/ vid)
  7. Pickens' 4GW Texas wind farm abandoned http://bit.ly/MWhRf (Wash Post) To Boone: send excess turbines at a deep discount to China!!
  8. @darnoc thx! personally I'm not a fan of biofuels either, but policy interest in the space could help cellulosic waste 2 fuel R&D, esp in CN
  9. @darnoc it'll be interesting to see if biofuels hold up in China as a legit fuel source or reduce to a passing fad
  10. The mandatory plastic bag tax arrives in HK, following China's lead http://bit.ly/10E8id (CNN)
  11. @darnoc CN govt has been pushing biofuels relentlessly; the piece in govt controlled media may be backdrop 4 policy reversion in the future
  12. Foreign wind turbine makers and other foreign firms find it difficult to tap into China's generous econ stimulus $$ http://bit.ly/YQD8v (AP)
  13. Since this food-biofuel tradeoff is argued in China Daily, it's entirely possible that there's no obvious consensus even w/in CN govt
  14. If food crisis is back in China, will policy support for biofuels dry up? http://bit.ly/12Be6H (China Daily)
  15. China reduces fuel subsidies http://bit.ly/WgcfL (TreeHugger) imho China should eliminate subsidies entirely to remove demand distortions
  16. A $6.5b HEV factory in MS, to be built by Chinese entrepreneurs, is now in jeopardy: http://bit.ly/AsN78 (Auto Blog)
  17. NGOs work with rural villagers in China to kickstart a green revolution http://bit.ly/rf1Dv (CNN)
  18. The Three Gorges of Wind Power: a 20GW wind farm in China's Gansu province to be completed by 2020 http://bit.ly/Kn2Mm (WSJ)
  19. It's surprising that Caijing writes about @BeijingAir, US Embassy's hourly pollution reader in BJ http://bit.ly/weafd (Caijing, in Chinese)
  20. My personal fav Dr. Mo of NRDC explains China's new green building labeling campaign: a voluntary, opt-in program http://bit.ly/vZ1T1 (NRDC)