One writer observes:
China added more coal-burning power plants in 2007 than Britain has built in its history, said Gerard McCloskey, a coal market specialist with Cambridge Energy Research Associates in London.

America’s no slouch, though. Already, the US gets almost half its power from coal, with a rise expected in the next few decades. We’re […]

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Gentrification is complex. Many say it’s better than the alternative. In Portland, like many American cities, “blighted” areas are redeveloped or otherwise spruced up, often with significant help from local government. Rarely do citizens spontaneously change the makeup of a neighborhood–it’s an act imposed from outside, using money and (sometimes) good intentions. It almost never […]

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