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......
BEIJING -- Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, registered the country's worst air quality in the first quarter of 2016, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said Monday.In the three months from January to March, Urumqi suffered fro......
Three cities have reached their environmental improvement goals with sharp reductions in airborne particulate pollution matters after having serious talks with environmental protection authorities, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said.The ministry held talk-down......
South China's Shenzhen City in Guangdong Province will introduce a carpool lane limited to vehicles with at least one passenger during rush hour on working days.The high_occupancy vehicle lane, or HOV lane, will open on Binhai Road, a freeway connecting the city's Nansha......
Hebei has achieved its target of lowering airborne PM2.5 levels by more than 20 percent two years ahead of schedule, according to the province's Environmental Protection Bureau.The average concentration of PM2.5 in the province last year was 28.7 percent lower than it wa......
A bird's eye view of Zhengzhou city, Central China's Henan province, which is seeing an increase in air pollution due to the large_scale construction the city is undergoing, July 29, 2015. [Photo/VCG]Many cities across the country have taken bonus and penalty schemes in ......
