As an effort to promote environment governance reform and improve environmental quality, the State Council issued a circular to roll out the permit system for discharging pollutants.According to the announcement, the environmental protection authorities will supervise en......
Policies to encourage electric vehicles are hindering fuel efficiency improvements in traditional modes of transport, writes Feng HaoWith vehicle sales growing rapidly in China – and vehicle-related pollution, too – Chinese policymakers are looking to aggressively shift ......
Shijiazhuang, the city with the worst air quality over the past two months, launched a campaign on Thursday with its toughest measures of the year.The campaign will last until the end of the year and aims to reduce the city's average annual concentration of PM 2.5 - smal......
BEIJING - China will boost the development of geothermal power in the next five years to reduce coal consumption and improve air quality, an energy official said on Thursday.In particular, China will promote the use of geothermal power in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region......
Just a few years ago, Beijing’s smoggy air was full of toxic heavy metal elements arsenic, lead and cadmium.New research from Greenpeace East Asia and the Beijing Environmental Mutagen Society, however, shows that concentrations of the carcinogens have fallen dramaticall......
Diesel engines power the dominant share of goods movement, construction equipment, and public transport vehicles in the global economy. This strategy presents a roadmap to reduce small particulate and black carbon emissions from the global on-road diesel fleet through th......
This report assesses near-term electric vehicle market trends to inform on how governments might optimally evolve their electric vehicle incentive programs to sustain market growth. We analyze prevailing per-vehicle purchasing incentives and how government outlays increa......
Insufficient implementation of pollution control efforts and deterioration in some regions due to over-exploitation of resources were found by top inspectors in Heilongjiang, Jiangsu and Henan provinces, according to inspection results released on Tuesday by the environm......
(Beijing) — Beijing plans to have 30% fewer PM2.5 pollutants in its air by 2020.In a draft version of the city's 13th five-year environmental protection (or "135") plan released Tuesday, the municipal government said it also hopes to see at least 204 blue-sky days annual......
Move expected to cut 'dirty and smelly' emissions, help region improve air qualityA year from now, Hebei province will cut out all household coal-burning activities in areas surrounding Beijing, a move to reduce pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.The areas, ma......
