The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and seven other government departments jointly announced a policy document Guidance Suggestions to Promote Electricity Power Replacement (《关于推进电能替代的指导意见》). Heating, production, transportation, and electr......
Beijing's plan to construct ventilation corridors will not involve the large-scale demolition of houses, nor will it spread pollution to neighboring provinces, according to a planner involved with the project.The municipal government announced in February that it would b......
Efforts to focus on how local authorities live up to promises and tackle the scourge of pollutionEnvironmental inspections by the central government have been given more power and increased importance, and will include all provinces, according to a Chinese environmental ......
Over 80 percent of the world's city dwellers breathe poor quality air, increasing their risk of lung cancer and other life-threatening diseases, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report warned Thursday.Urban residents in poor countries are by far the worst affected, ......
Air quality in Beijing has improved in the first four months of this year, with the density of a major pollutant particles down more than 20 percent year on year, local environment watchdog said on Tuesday.The density of PM2.5, particulate matter measuring less than 2.5 ......
A milestone in China's efforts to be more environmentally friendly, Shenhua's upgrades will take emissions of dust, sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the company's 22 power units in the region below 10 milligrams per cubic meter, 35 milligrams per cubic......
Monthlong inspection motivated govts to improve supervision, control, report saysHebei province has shut down 200 polluting companies and punished 366 people in response to serious problems exposed in an environmental inspection in January.The punishments came as the pro......
The Central Government Environmental Protection Inspection Group (CGEPIG) completed a two-month inspection in Hebei, and pointed out short-comings in their environmental protection work.Hebei province took several seats on the “cities with worst air pollution(TOP 10 list......
Comprehensive information on national, regional and city_level air pollution data and policies throughout China is now available with the English-language release of Clean Air Asia’s groundbreaking “China Air 2015: Air Pollution Prevention and Control Progress in Chines......
Tianjin will charge petrochemical and package printing industries a VOCs discharge fee of RMB 10/kg beginning May 1, 2016. The fees will be differentiated according to an enterprise’s emissions levels. Enterprises that exceed the total emissions limit or that exceed nati......
