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Title	Media	Author	Date	Description
US solar tariffs linked to preventable deaths, claim researchers	PV Magazine	John Weaver	2025-11-04	A more rigorous—and encouraging—analysis from researchers at the City University of New York found that solar panel imports into the United States displaced 305 TWh of fossil generation, avoided 178 million tons of CO2 emissions, and prevented 595 premature deaths between 2014 and 2022. The paper, Imported solar photovoltaics contributed to health and climate benefits in the United States, showed that 78% of solar panels deployed during this time were imports. As utility-scale solar grew from ‘nearly zero’ in 2010 to 3.4% of total U.S generation in 2022, those imported modules were critical.
How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power	The New York Times	Brad Plumer, Harry Stevens	2025-10-23	The New York Times covered U.S. China’s nuclear power race and highlighted our work—reproducing our figure and citing our Nature Comment article on nuclear costs.
Why nuclear is now a booming industry	The Economist	The Economist	2025-09-04	The Economist covered the nuclear industry’s resurgence and highlighted our work—reproducing our figure and citing our Nature Comment article on nuclear costs.
What the U.S.-China Agreement Means for Greenhouse Gas Emissions	Scientific American	Benjamin Storrow, Sara Schonhardt	2023-11-16	The two nations announced limited steps to address climate change. But even a modest agreement could have far-reaching effects.
Can the U.S. and China Cooperate on Green Technology Again?	Foreign Policy	Lili Pike	2023-09-21	A study published in Nature last year found that if the United States, Germany, and China all decided to shift to fully domestic solar production starting in 2020, by 2030 global solar costs would be 20 percent to 30 percent higher.
How Biden’s made-in-America solar strategy may backfire	E&E News	David Iaconangelo	2022-10-27	A new study in Nature concludes that policies similar to ones the administration is considering could make solar panels 30 percent more expensive by the end of the decade.
New energy transition guidance; Five coal plants approved; Energy-efficiency targets raised	Carbon Brief	Carbon Brief Staff	2022-02-17	Gang He told Carbon Brief: “There are other and better options: renewables are achieving grid parity which could accelerate a renewable-dominant pathway. Such a pathway is both technically feasible and economically beneficial to China’s development.”
China creates vast research infrastructure to support ambitious climate goals	Nature	Smriti Mallapaty	2021-11-22	Carbon-neutrality institutes, and other initiatives to support a pledge to achieve net zero by 2060, are popping up like mushrooms across China.
How China could be carbon neutral by mid-century	Nature	Smriti Mallapaty	2020-10-19	Nature special report examines the role of renewables, nuclear power and carbon capture in reaching this ambitious goal.
China Says It Will Stop Releasing CO2 within 40 Years	Scientific American	Jean Chemnick, Benjamin Storrow	2020-09-23	The surprise announcement vaults the country ahead of U.S. climate ambitions and could encourage developing countries to follow suit.
Plummeting Renewable Energy, Battery Prices Mean China Could Hit 62% Clean Power And Cut Costs 11% By 2030	Forbes	Energy Innovation	2020-08-10	New research shows plummeting clean energy prices mean China could reliably run its grids on at least 62% non-fossil electricity generation by 2030, while cutting costs 11% compared to a business-as-usual approach. Once again, it’s cheaper to save the climate than destroy it.
Surging coal use in China threatens global CO2 goals	E&E News	Benjamin Storrow	2020-06-09	The fast decrease in the costs of solar, wind, and storage, and technological innovation has fundamentally changed the economics of renewables, said Gang He; our analysis shows that such a fast decarbonization and clean power transition is both technically feasible and economically beneficial.
China’s Path to Clean Energy May Be Smoother than We Previously Thought	Inside Climate News	Dan Gearino	2020-06-04	A new paper in the journal Nature Communications says the probable reality is much better than we previously thought, largely because of falling costs of wind, solar and battery storage.
Bill Calls For An Emissions-Free NY By 2050	WSHU Public Radio	Jay Shah	2019-02-18	In addition to policy, technology, there are also behavior components to that. How we incentivize people to change their behavior and their lifestyle.
Where is the world’s greenest city?	The Guardian	Hayley Birch	2015-04-02	In a 2015 study published in the journal Ecological Indicators, scientists based at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California have fine-tuned a potential method for assessing Chinese “eco-cities” using 33 key indicators.