New figures in China show the country adding clean, renewable electricity generation faster than it is expanding capacity of more polluting sources. But change can’t happen fast enough for residents in eastern China, who are now choking on soupy air associated with coal-burning plants more often associated with the country’s north. Led by hydropower, renewable energy sources made up 57% of newly installed electricity-generating capacity during the first 10 months of 2013, according to China’s National Energy Administration. The figures, published to the NEA’s website Wednesday, showed 20% expansion from the same period a year earlier. Renewable energy accounted for a larger portion of growth in electricity-generating capacity than traditional, more polluting sources such as coal. Thermal-power capacity accounted for 43% of the additional capacity added. Hydropower […]