This winter, people in Beijing and other major cities in China noticed more blue-sky days. This was a welcome sign of progress, until news reports surfaced about rural residents suffering freezing temperatures in their homes because coal-powered heaters have been banned while natural gas heaters, which were supposed to replace coal heaters, had not yet been installed. It’s was the latest indication that the national campaign to “supply clean energy heating” and to “win the war for blue skies” is …

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