Air pollution is often seen as a local problem requiring local and regional solutions. Karachi, London, Lagos, Mexico City and Paris are just a few of the world’s cities grappling with poor air quality. With city-dwellers increasingly being asked to ditch the car – espec......
The Ministry of Environmental Protection will revise around 900 standards during the 13th five-year-plan period. Adding to this, about 800 new standards will be developed, including 100 standards for pollutant emission control and 400 standards for environmental monitori......
BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- To curb air pollution, Hebei Province, Beijing and Tianjin will enforce a unified standard to reduce the use of coatings and adhesives in construction.According to the standard issued Thursday, the amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)......
(Beijing) — Beijing’s air became more toxic in the first three months of the year, and the numbers of days with heavy pollution went up compared with the same period last year amid an uptick in manufacturing activity.The Chinese capital and its neighbors — Tianjin and He......
Beijing, 11 April, 2017 - A new report on the co-benefits of wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) power in China by Greenpeace East Asia and partner organisations finds that by 2030, China’s wind and solar power generation could replace fossil energy sources by up to 300 mil......
An atmospheric monitoring LIDAR system recently passed preliminary approval by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The online monitoring system could be a reliable tool for real-time air quality monitoring and data analysis. （Source：Xinhua News）......
In the largest national-level inspection on record, more than two dozen cities in north China will face a strict one-year inspection over air pollution prevention, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) announced Wednesday. Some 5,600 environmental inspectors......
(Beijing) — Recent Environmental Ministry inspections found that one-third of manufacturers in northern China had tampered with emissions data to avoid heavy penalties.The Ministry of Environmental Protection checked 8,500 businesses in 18 of the worst-polluted northern ......
When Premier Li recently delivered the 2017 government work report, he stressed the importance of efficient integration of renewable energy as a measure to make Chinese skies blue again. Although China has become the biggest investor in renewable energy and has the most ......
CENEWS-MEP released the 2016 annual work report on government information sharing recently. The report proposes that this year the Ministry will take further steps to share environmental information, continue to share more information on ambient air quality and in other ......
