(Beijing) — China’s goal to reduce excess coal capacity will be far less ambitious this year — only 20% of last year’s target — because scaling back coal production is expected to be increasingly difficult due to rising prices and concerns over lost jobs.The government ......
Governments in cities along three pollution "highways" have been told to coordinate their efforts to cut emissions and help prevent the kind of smog that again blanketed the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region on Feb 12 and was expected to persist for five days.The Ministry of ......
(Beijing) — “As virtue rises one foot, vice rises 10”: The Chinese Buddhist proverb is often cited as a reminder to people that the fight for righteousness can be sabotaged by powerful countervailing forces.Take the case of Tangshan, a coastal city in Hebei province.Tan......
On February 16th iCET held a roundtable discussion on NEV credits design impact and management planning, together with China Beijing Environmental Emissions Exchange (CBEEX) with support of the Energy Foundation China. Prof Henry Ye Du of Southwest University of Finance ......
Scientists have published a major study which links outdoor air pollution with 2.7 million preterm births per year.The study, which was led by a team from The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York, found that in 2010, about 2.7 million preterm b......
An official with MEP told the news press today that the Ministry will work with relevant provinces (municipalities) to launch the thematic inspection between Feb. 15 and Mar. 15 on air quality in the first quarter, in order to urge Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding a......
(Beijing) — Three of the four largest cities in affluent Guangdong province will upgrade their entire public-bus fleets to electric-powered vehicles by 2020 — part of an ambitious plan to make three-quarters of all provincial public buses powered by clean energy over the......
(Beijing) — China’s new-energy car sales plunged in January as buyers and manufacturers took to the sidelines as the government restructured an incentive system that had been widely abused.The country has embarked on an aggressive program to build up its new-energy car s......
China’s air quality monitoring network is completed as over 5,000 monitoring centers have been set up at national, provincial, municipal and county levels, according to China National Environmental Monitoring Center (CNEMC). Since the 12th five-year plan period, China ha......
In the largest epidemiological study conducted in the developing world, researchers found that as exposures to fine particulate air pollution in 272 Chinese cities increase, so do deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.The researchers reported their results ......
