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......
Tianjin began charging factories for emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC), a major contributor to air pollution, on Sunday.The charge applies to petrochemical, packaging and printing companies in the northern Chinese city.The standard charge is set at 10 yuan (1......
The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) on Thursday urged local governments of five cities with declining air quality to fully implement the national plan for clean air.The MEP on Thursday interviewed the top local-government officials of five cities -- Changzhi i......
A report on China's environmental protection record in 2015 was tabled to the top legislature for review on Monday, the first review under the new Environmental Protection Law.At its bi-monthly session from Monday through Thursday, the Standing Committee of the National ......
Air pollution emissions in Shandong province fell during the first quarter of the year, thanks to a market-based air quality incentive program that could end up being rolled out across the country.The province's environmental protection bureau said the concentration of f......
On March 23, at a workshop that Energy Foundation China helped to organize, the city of Shenzhen announced an ambitious new goal of reaching the World Health Organization's interim target II fine particulate matter (WHO-II PM2.5) standard—annual concentration of less tha......
