President Xi urges pollution prevention, control
BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for comprehensive efforts to prevent and curb pollution, urging focus on areas surrounding rivers and lakes as well as major air-polluting industries.
Xi made the comments [...]
8 arrested over SW China river pollution
KUNMING, May 21 (Xinhua) — Eight people have been arrested in connection with illegal dumping activities that polluted a local waterway in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The Yunnan Provincial People’s [...]
Japan, China, South Korea to cooperate on air pollution
AFPMay 7, 2013, 12:07 am TWN
TOKYO — Japan, China and South Korea agreed Monday to cooperate in the fight against cross-border air pollution, despite strained relations between the neighbors because of territorial disputes.
The [...]
Japan, China, South Korea to cooperate on air pollution
AFPMay 7, 2013, 12:07 am TWN
TOKYO — Japan, China and South Korea agreed Monday to cooperate in the fight against cross-border air pollution, despite strained relations between the neighbors because of territorial disputes.
The [...]
Protesters in Kunming and Chengdu Fight Pollution
On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in Kunming, Yunnan to protest plans by China National Petroleum Corporation to build a plant in a nearby town which would produce the hazardous chemical paraxylene (PX). From BBC:
Some demonstrators [...]
Protesters in Kunming and Chengdu Fight Pollution
On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in Kunming, Yunnan to protest plans by China National Petroleum Corporation to build a plant in a nearby town which would produce the hazardous chemical paraxylene (PX). From BBC:
Some demonstrators [...]
Ministry of Truth: Shanghai Factory Pollution
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online.
Central Propaganda Department: Regarding concerns that the Shanghai Guoxuan New Energy project could pollute [Shanghai's] [...]
Owner sentenced on pollution charge
A Jinshan district business owner has been sentenced to five years of probation and fined 2 million yuan ($ 324,000) for neglecting to supervise a contractor who dumped toxic wastewater into two rivers, the district government said Thursday.
The [...]
The case for Common Law reform against air pollution
Updated: 2013-04-24 05:22
By Andrew Mak (HK Edition)
Come April we had drizzling rain and grey sky. It is now the season of cloudy sky and low visibility on the sea. The roads are no different as air pollution in Hong Kong is considered a [...]
Smoking, air pollution major health threats in China
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Chinese and international medical experts have warned that second-hand smoke and air pollution are among the major health threats in China.
XINHUANEWS
Pollution Effects Glaring, But Can China Adapt?
A new summary of scientific data indicates that outdoor air pollution led to 1.2 million premature deaths in China in 2010, according to The New York Times’ Edward Wong:
The data on which the analysis is based was first presented in the [...]
Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Premature Deaths in China
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Figured another way, the 2010 toll meant the loss of 25 million healthy years of life from the population, researchers said.
NYT > China
China to Spend $16 Billion to Tackle Pollution
As pollution worsens and environmental concerns grow, Reuters reports China will spend $ 16 billion over three years to deal with Beijing’s pollution:
Beijing’s government has pledged to improve sewage disposal, garbage treatment and [...]
China to Spend $16 Billion to Tackle Pollution
As pollution worsens and environmental concerns grow, Reuters reports China will spend $ 16 billion over three years to deal with Beijing’s pollution:
Beijing’s government has pledged to improve sewage disposal, garbage treatment and [...]
New Studies Link Pollution to Birth Defects
For Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson writes that several recent studies have firmed up the link between pollution and birth defects in China and beyond:
Tong Zhu, now a Princeton Global Scholar, together with research partners at Peking [...]
Beijing and Tianjin to tackle heavy pollution
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Beijing and Tianjin have drawn up an emergency plan to tackle heavy pollution, under an agreement signed by authorities in the two municipalities on Sunday.
China Daily >USA Edition > China
Pollution Solutions Succumb to Infighting
Pollution in China has reached heights forcing officials to acknowledge “ecological progress” as essential for both the nation’s well-being and their own political legitimacy. While forming policy to help clean up China’s infamously [...]
As Pollution Worsens in China, Solutions Succumb to Infighting
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Even as top officials admit the severity of China’s environmental woes, conflict within the government is one of the biggest obstacles to enacting stronger policies.
NYT > China
HK: Most light pollution in the world
Hong Kong is one of the world’s worst cities for light pollution. Its night skies are around 1,000 times brighter than globally accepted levels, researchers from Hong Kong University have said, days ahead of the Earth Hour event.
Even in [...]
Green tax mulled to help fight pollution
China is considering levying a consumption tax on some products that make heavy use of resources and cause pollution, in a major effort to promote resource and environmental protection awareness, according to a report.
The plan was mentioned [...]
Recent Comments