Recent spells of severe smog engulfing northeastern and northern regions of China contributed to November's alarming rise in pollution levels, according to the nation's top environmental watchdog.Beijing saw its readings of PM2.5－hazardous particulate matter smaller than......
BEIJING (AP) — China's push for a global climate pact was due in part to its own increasingly pressing need to solve serious environmental problems, observers said Sunday.China, the world's biggest source of climate-changing gases, was blamed for obstructing the last hig......
The National Development and Reform Committee, Ministry of Environmental Protection, and National Energy Administration released a notice on Supporting Policy for Coal-fired Power Plants with Ultra Low Emission on December 9th, announcing subsidies for coal-fired plants ......
Winter has come, and for China’s three north-eastern provinces, so has a blanket of smog. The region has leapfrogged the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area to become the most polluted in China during 2015. Levels of PM2.5 in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning, hit a daily average......
BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- For the first time in history, Beijing issued a red alert for air pollution earlier this week to limit car use and industrial activities until the smog dispersed. It helped cut pollutants substantially, said experts, as a new round of smog is......
Beginning in the 1970s, the U.S. electricity industry experienced a wrenching transformation from a sector characterized by high growth to one focused on reliability, economic efficiency, and environmental performance. The contemporary building blocks of electricity plan......
(Beijing ) - The municipal government in Beijing issued the first ever red alert over air pollution on December 7.The alert, the highest possible warning level, is raised when the air quality index surges above the 200 mark and the Beijing Municipal Bureau for Environmen......
The Chinese government has recognized the importance of comprehensively improving the quality of urbanization, committing to a path for green and low-carbon new urbanization. In recent years, many cities have been actively responding to the central government’s call by e......
BEIJING, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- China has achieved the pollution reduction targets for major pollutants outlined in its 12th Five-Year Plan, six months ahead of schedule, Environment Minister Chen Jining said Sunday.Nonetheless, a substantial improvement of the environment ......
Beijing aims to decrease PM2.5 by 15 percent and reduce the number of polluted days by 2020. A higher standard for vehicle emissions will take effect in 2017. In addition, 30 billion RMB will be invested to improve air quality in the southern part of Beijing in the comin......
