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......
Chinese banks should rethink lending to the hugely-polluting cement sector as new environmental laws come into force, says new reportChina’s cement industry would be liable for a huge bill if it had to pay the external costs of pollution, a finding that lenders to the se......
The China Standardization Administration published 11 national standards for greenhouse gas (GHG) management, including general principles for industry enterprise GHG emissions accounting systems and reports and specific rules for ten key industries, including power, iro......
China is striving to launch a nationwide carbon emissions trading market in 2017 to fulfill the country's commitment of a low carbon future, said a senior official on Thursday.China will start a nationwide carbon emissions trading market at a faster pace following smooth......
On November 10 and 11, grantee Beijing University of Technology held a training on air quality monitoring and forecast technology for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (JJJ) region and its surrounding areas. About forty attendees from local environmental monitoring centers and s......
The draft of China’s Environmental Protection Tax Law is expected to be submitted to State Council by the end of this year, with submission to the National People’s Congress expected in the first half of 2016. Four categories of pollutants (air pollution, water pollutio......
