China burns more fossil fuels than any other nation, making it the planet's top source of the greenhouse gases that are warming the earth and its voracious appetite for electricity is only growing
Construction on the Zhongtang gas-fired power plant in Dongguan, China, one of several new gas plants being built in the area to meet the country’s energy needs as it pivots from coal, Sept. 28, 2021. It’s one of several huge gas-fired plants being built to pump more electricity throughout this sprawling industrial city of about 10 million, where rising demand for power has led to rationing and blackouts that are now rippling across eastern China and threaten international supply chains.
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DONGGUAN, China — On the northern edge of a vast Chinese factory city, welding torches gleam as workers finish construction on a gas-fired power plant to replace one that burned coal and blanketed the surrounding neighborhood in a sooty pall.
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