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Nine Ministries Put Forth Dioxin Control Timetable, and Other China Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Climate Change News
Nine ministries put forward dioxin control timetable, pilot reduction to be performed in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Google translate)
China will begin total emission control for dioxin in several pilot locations, including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Dealty, and other key regions.
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China Looks to the U.S. to Learn From the Clean Air Act, Even as Some in the U.S. Seek to Dismantle It.
It is remarkable that the U.S. Clean Air Act is under attack these days. Have we come to take the blue skies in the U.S. so for granted that magazines are running columns with titles like “Clean Air Act: Defend or Dismantle?” I have worked for NRDC in Beijing for the last five years, and no one in this great city takes a blue sky day for granted. They are too precious and rare a commodity. Let us not forget, as Peter Lehner recently pointed out, that the Clean Air Act is what prevents the air in the U.S. from … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Five Major Power Groups to Develop Mercury Elimination Pilots and Other Recent China Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Climate News
Five Major Power Groups to Develop Mercury Elimination Pilots (Google Translate)
MEP vice minister Zhang Lijun presided over a symposium in Beijing to discuss the development of mercury elimination pilots in coal-fired power plants. The power sector is required to pay high attention to controlling mercury emissions, and pilot mercury emissions control projects were planned for coal-fired power plants. (Source: China Environment News)
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Amending China’s Air Law: Recommendations from the International Experience
In July 2009, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) and the Energy Foundation’s China Sustainable Energy Program released a report, Amending China’s Air Law: Recommendations from the International Experience, intended to provide an in-depth analysis of the international experience in air pollution regulation for Chinese policymakers and experts as China considers amendments to its Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law. The report analyzes the U.S. and international experience in thirteen key areas and the implications these experiences could have for an amendment of China’s air pollution law: national ambient air quality standards, combining air quality … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
MEP Declares that Air in 1/5 of Chinese Cities is Severely Polluted and Other Recent China Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Climate News
MEP: Air in 1/5 of Chinese cities seriously polluted, major vehicles main cause (Google translate)
Last week Liu Zhiquan, deputy director of MEP’s department of science and technology standards, announced that the air in 1/5 of Chinese cities is seriously polluted. In addition, the air quality of more than 1/3 of China’s 113 key cities does not meet the national level II standard. Motor vehicle emissions were identified as the major source of air pollution in medium and large size cities. (Source: Beijing News)
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Recent China Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Climate News
To IT companies in violation of heavy metal discharge standards, environmental organizations launch a new fight (Google translate)
According to a report developed by 34 environmental groups, including Friends of Nature, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs, and Daerwen, Zhejiang Narada Power Source Co., Ltd. (Narada) has an intimate relationship with Shanghang Huaqiang battery factory, which has been linked to the lead-poisoning of 121 children. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Recent Environmental Law and Public Participation News
MEP releases nationwide statistics for COD and SO2 for first half of 2009 showing downward trend (Google translation)
The latest figures for Chemical Oxygen Demand and sulfur dioxide emissions for all of China’s provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions were releases by MEP in time for the 60th anniversary. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Recent Environmental Law and Public Participation News
Lead-stricken town mayor’s apology fails to make up for lack of information disclosure (Google translation)
After Chinese media revealed on August 6 that hundreds of children in the Fengxiang area of Shaanxi Province had dangerous levels of lead in their blood, the mayor of Baoji City, a town in the affected area, did not make any public apologies or announcements until 12 days later. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(2)
The Shaanxi lead poisoning incident and other stories: a China pollution round-up
In recent weeks, Chinese media has been awash in news about pollution accidents or other incidents around China. Here is an overview: Lead poisoning in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province: more than 600 children were found to have lead poisoning (see here and here also) [Update: The smelter has been shutdown in the wake of unrest.] Cadmium poisoning in Liuyang County, Hunan Province (see here also). 78 officials sued over ‘environmental neglect’ in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. 4,000 people sickened by tap water contamination in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia (see here also). An ammonia gas leak in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia: … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(2)
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