{"id":1510,"date":"2016-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/aboutus\/1510\/update-is-china-doubling-down-on-its-coal-power-bubble\/"},"modified":"2019-11-23T21:46:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T05:46:43","slug":"update-is-china-doubling-down-on-its-coal-power-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/publication\/1510\/update-is-china-doubling-down-on-its-coal-power-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Is China doubling down on its coal power bubble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Over 210 new coal-fired power plant projects being permitted in China \u2013 Version updated in Feb 2016<\/h2>\n<div class=\"leader\" style=\"font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 12px\">\n\tIn January-December 2015, China\u2019s Ministry of Environmental Protection and provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus gave at least one positive permitting decision to a total of 210 coal-fired power plants with a total capacity of 169 gigawatts \u2013 four power plants per week. This surge of approvals seems to have resulted from China\u2019s decision to decentralize authority to approve coal-fired power plant projects Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to the province level from March 2015.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html#2023844\/33830702\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>UPDATE: Is China Doubling Down on its Coal Power Bubble <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eastasia-stateless\/2019\/11\/c09ac2b1-c09ac2b1-greenpeace_doubling-down-on-coal-power-2015-update.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tIn January-December 2015, China\u2019s Ministry of Environmental Protection and provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus gave at least one positive permitting decision to a total of 210 coal-fired power plants with a total capacity of 169 gigawatts \u2013 four power plants per week. This surge of approvals seems to have resulted from China\u2019s decision to decentralize authority to approve coal-fired power plant projects Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to the province level from March 2015.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","tag-coal","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}