Daily News April 9, 2014

Environmental Pollution and Health

Cars Race to Forefront of Greenhouse-Gas Tally: Carbon & Climate, Business Week

The greatest emerging threat to the global climate may rest in the side pocket of your trousers -- or wherever you keep the car keys.

Many nations wary of extracting carbon from air to fix climate, Reuters

Many nations want a draft U.N. report to tone down prospects for sucking greenhouse gases from the air to help fix global warming, reckoning the technologies are risky, documents seen by Reuters show.

Beijing’s Neighbors Resist Transfer of Its Polluting Industries

Beijing’s latest effort to move energy-intensive, polluting businesses out of the Chinese capital has run into resistance from regional governments who are unenthusiastic about taking more industrial castoffs.

Compensation deal struck for clean-up of plastic pellets spilled in typhoon, SCMP

Hong Kong has come to a financial settlement with an unidentified party over the cost of the clean-up of a massive spill of plastic pellets in the city's waters during one of the most powerful typhoons to hit in recent years.

China’s Role in Global Trade

China, Not the West, is Key to Asia’s Export Recovery, WSJ

Many commentators have noted the changing nature of demand from the West — including the fact that this recovery, unlike past ones, has been driven not by consumption but by less import-intensive sectors like housing and energy.

Energy Problem

New Energy Frontier: Drilling Into Coal for Gas, National Geograpgic

Underground coal gasification proposals ignite debate, from Wales to Wyoming

Grain, Poultry and Food Security

Chinese Market To Lead Global Demand For Beef

While the U.S. beef and cattle markets will remain strong and volatile, Chinese beef demand will be the major global market factor.

China to Import More US Farm Goods in 2014, China Topix

Despite the sometimes shaky relations between the United States and China, the world's largest and second largest economies, the two nations are interlocked in a trade relation that feeds and benefits the people of China, and makes profits for American farmers.