China's boom of coal-fired power plants is likely to slow after next year as excess capacity and then expanding renewable and nuclear energy sources kick in, a senior energy policy analyst said in an interview.

Australia's government defended its scheme to cut carbon emissions on Friday, amid mining industry warnings that its carbon trading plan would cost 23,000 resource sector jobs as the country battles recession.

Thimphu: Tata

LEADING automobile manufacturers are developing engines that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as the availability of natural gas is expected to double by this yearend. The supply of natural gas is likely to go up to 200 mmscmd by this year with 80 mmscmd flowing from Reliance Industries

Smriti Kak Ramachandran
NEW DELHI: With an eye on arresting the Capital

JOWAI: A crematorium, designed by Kambel Chullai and constructed by the Sein Raij Jowai was inaugurated here on Thursday at Mookhein, Dulong Pohhali, Jowai by the Chief Secretary, Government of Meghalaya, Ranjan Chatterjee.

The U.S. government will reverse a Bush administration policy and increase the role of scientists in setting air standards for criteria pollutants harmful to human health, Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Thursday.

The U.S. biofuels industry would be hamstrung if government regulators choose to use unfair and untested formulas that hold it responsible for greenhouse gases from crops overseas, ethanol groups said on Thursday.

Rich nations should cut their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels as part of a new global climate change pact, China said on Thursday, spelling out its stance ahead of negotiations.
Photo: Shannon Stapleton

By JOHN M. BRODER and MICHELINE MAYNARD
Published: May 19, 2009

WASHINGTON