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Denise Mauzerall

For years, Shanghai has featured some of China's worst air pollution. Recent initiatives by the Chinese government, though, have begun to clean up some of the problem.

With the US pursuing fossil fuels, alternative, renewable forms of energy could be an even bigger boon to China

Economics

While the Trump Administration has decided to support the fossil fuel industry, China has decided to go in a much different direction.

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