A Shell Game of Coal Dust and Green Olympics

There are only 270 days left until the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics. by Between now and the time the torch is lit and the Green games start, 38 new pulverized-coal fired power plants will open.

Statement after statement about how this Olympiad will be environmentally friendly and the amazing lengths China is going to with regard to alternative energy power generation in Beijing is plastered around the news media daily. That is the truth


On one hand, China claims to the world it is going green to help us all against climate change and pollution control. But read the newspaper s