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  • Thirsty Power: Measuring the Water Risk of China’s Coal Industry With Mingxuan Wang

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  July 6, 2017  //  By Li Xia
    Henan Coal-Fired Power Plant

    Coal — the reigning king of China’s energy sector — generates 74 percent of the country’s electricity and is the main source of the staggering air pollution blanketing Chinese cities. Prompted in large part by the air pollution problem, the Chinese leadership has begun to pivot away from coal by strengthening monitoring and enforcement to limit coal-fired power plant emissions, piloting CO2 emissions trading projects, accelerating expansion of renewables, and committing to CO2 reductions in the Paris climate agreement.

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  • No Room for Waste: Honolulu’s Sludge Plant Points Toward More Sustainable Urban Development

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    Choke Point  //  Guest Contributor  //  June 23, 2017  //  By Codi Kozacek
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    HONOLULU – Sludge. The final, unwanted byproduct of a toilet flush. The semi-solid stuff that even wastewater treatment plants send packing to the landfill. Unseen in the steel pipes snaking high on the exterior of Honolulu’s H-POWER plant, sludge is injected into a massive boiler where it joins the city’s trash in a roaring inferno. From the gravel lot outside, it all seems very antiseptic and smells less than a stroll past the neighborhood dumpster. But the 70-megawatt waste-to-energy facility is a workhorse, processing as much as 2,000 tons of refuse each day from Oahu’s 1 million residents. All told, it generates up to 10 percent of the electricity needed to power this Pacific island.

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  • Tamil Nadu Leads India’s Historic Turn to the Sun and Wind

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    Choke Point  //  June 7, 2017  //  By Keith Schneider
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    The ninth and final story in a series of reports by Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    MADURAI, India – Before he agreed to serve as minister of state and take command of his country’s mammoth energy production and distribution sector, Piyush Goyal developed one of India’s most spirited political careers. “A man of ideas and competence,” according to First Post, a prominent news organization, Goyal is an accountant and lawyer who rose to the peak of Indian economic and political culture as an investment banker, member of parliament, and treasurer of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

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  • New Media Helps Galvanize Tamil Nadu to Fight a Toxic Legacy

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    Choke Point  //  May 31, 2017  //  By Keith Schneider
    Jayaraman

    The eighth in a series of reports by Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    KODAIKANAL, India – In the dogged community of eco-activists, journalists, local leaders, and artists that find common ground defending Tamil Nadu from rapacious development and rampant pollution, Nityanand Jayaraman stands out.

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  • Miners Plunder Tamil Nadu’s Sands, Dropping Some Rivers by 50 Feet

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    Choke Point  //  May 24, 2017  //  By Sibi Arasu
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    The seventh in a series of reports by Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    CHENNIMALAI, India – There is river and beach sand aplenty in Tamil Nadu. At 130,000 square kilometers (50,200 square miles), the state is about the same size as Nicaragua and has 95 rivers with sandy bottoms and a long Bay of Bengal shoreline. Or did. For almost all of its thousand-year history, the state of Tamil Nadu took all that sand for granted. No longer.

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  • The Right to Life and Water: Drought and Turmoil for Coke and Pepsi in Tamil Nadu

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    Choke Point  //  May 18, 2017  //  By Keith Schneider
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    The sixth in a series of reports by Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    TIRUNELVELI, India – Just after dusk on a warm mid-January evening, attorney DA Prabakar greeted several visitors on the dimly lit street in front of his home here in southern India. The air was desert-dry and dusty in this rain-scarce river city.

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  • In City Under Stress, Chennai’s Water Bottlers Build a Thriving Business

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    Choke Point  //  May 10, 2017  //  By Keith Schneider
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    The fifth in a series of reports by Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    CHENNAI, India – T. Rajan tried all manner of entrepreneurial enterprises. He sold scrap paper and cardboard to recyclers. He built a street corner chai and cigarette cart, and repaired truck and bus tires. He started an office cleaning service for high-tech companies in the growing IT sector south of the city center. None of these delivered the financial returns and workday flexibility of selling clear, sky blue, 20-liter water “cans” in Chennai’s immense bottled water industry.

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  • Facing Floods, Social Entrepreneurs Push Chennai to Consider New Growth Strategy

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    Choke Point  //  May 1, 2017  //  By S. Gopikrishna Warrier
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    The fourth in a series of reports by Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    Before the 2015 floods that drowned Chennai, Pradeep John spent several years posting thorough and dutifully accurate updates and alerts on Twitter and Facebook as the Tamil Nadu Weatherman. An amateur meteorologist who developed considerable expertise in weather data and satellite imagery, John’s online followers relied on his crisp forecasts and advice.

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