According to the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Beijing is revising its Air Pollution Emergency Plan. The new plan will consider geographical features of different districts, and take emergency responses accordingly. During heavily polluted days, vehi......
BEIJING, March 1 (Wang Kunting, reporter of the China Environment News) Mr. Chen Jining, Minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), met with Mr. Eric Heitz, Co-founder and CEO of the Energy Foundation (EF), in Beijing today, when both sides exchanged vie......
Apart from a few pristine summer days last year when PM2.5 levels in Shanghai fell below 25, our city's air quality tends not to be very breathable. This past winter, for example, saw frequent AQI (Air Quality Index) levels hitting over 300 along with multiple Orange Ale......
China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the most polluted area in China, may solve the air pollution problems in 2030, but only with the joint effort and full support from all cities and industries, said a report released on Tuesday.Experts were optimistic about achieving ......
BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Beijing and its neighboring cities will start using uniform criteria when they issue pollution alerts by the end of March, the capital's environmental protection bureau said on Sunday.Alerts will be categorized by Air Quality Index (AQI) read......
BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Less fireworks were set off across China in the Lunar New Year, banned in many places, over air pollution concerns.Two thirds of people polled in 35 major Chinese cities last year by the center for public opinion research at Shanghai Jiao Ton......
China is speeding up its upgrading of vehicle emission standards to control car exhaust pollution, an alleged culprit for the smog that shrouds nearly half the country on many winter days.The 11 provinces in East China, where the economy is more advanced than the remaind......
The governor of Hebei province Zhang Qingwei had an unrelaxing start to 2016, after being called in for a ‘chat’ with officials tasked with delivering improvements in air quality.Although there is a huge task ahead to reduce pollution on one of China’s most heavily-ind......
LANZHOU, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province reported 252 days of excellent or good air quality last year, 59 days more than in 2013, according to the city's environmental protection bureau.Lanzhou is situated in the Yellow River vall......
The municipality of Beijing is preparing to introduce new standards for vehicle emissions. But plans to tackle smog in the capital, before the arrival of the Winter Olympics in 2022, have been thwarted by lax environmental regulations elsewhere. A final version of the ‘B......
