Columnist Tom Friedman routinely praises China as a leader in clean energy:

I’ve been stunned to learn about the sheer volume of wind, solar, mass transit, nuclear and more efficient coal-burning projects that have sprouted in China in just the last year.

Equally stunning is the 11-day traffic jam in Beijing:

And an awful lot of the trucks currently snarled on the G110 expressway to Beijing are carrying coal mined illegally in Inner Mongolia.