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State Council announces 10 new measures to curb air pollution

Published on South China Morning Post (http://www.scmp.com) Home > State Council announces 10 new measures to curb air pollution State Council announces 10 new measures to curb air pollution Saturday, 15 June, 2013, 12:00am News›China ENVIRONMENT · Green activists hand out masks to pedestrians on The Bund yesterday to raise awareness of air pollution in [...]

Carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4 percent in 2012, IEA report says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/carbon-dioxide-emissions-rose-14-percent-in-2012-iea-report-says/2013/06/09/35d32bac-d123-11e2-8cbe-1bcbee06f8f8_story.html Smoke is emitted from chimneys of a cement plant in Binzhou city in eastern China. According to an IEA report, global carbon dioxide emissions from energy use rose 1.4 percent. Jun 10, 2013 09:00 AM EDT The Washington Post Updated: Monday, June 10, 5:00 PM Global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use rose [...]

China’s environmental problems are grim, admits ministry report

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/chinas-choice/2013/jun/07/chinas-environmental-problems-grim-ministry-report China’s environmental problems are grim, admits ministry report Report by China’s Environment Ministry highlights decreasing standards in the country’s water and air quality Farmers dig ditches to lead water from a white polluted stream into farm fields, in Dongchuan district of Kunming, Yunnan province, March 21, 2013. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters China’s environmental situation has been described [...]

Bei Cough Jing

· · · · A variety of masks are selling big online in China. Photos: AP, Reuters · · A policeman wears mask on a windy and dusty day at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Photo: SCMP/Simon Song · This combo photos show tourists wearing different masks at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on January 30, 2013. [...]

Panel EA visit to Korea – some glaring information omissions

Legco Panel on Environmental Affairs Dear Hon Members, I refer to the briefing papers / fact sheets provided by the Administration for your recent visit to Korea. Please find at attachment herewith highly relevant information which the Administration conveniently omitted from their briefing papers. Kind regards, James Middleton Chairman www.cleartheair.org.hk We all breathe the same [...]

DIOXIN AND FURAN INVENTORIES National and Regional Emissions of PCDD/PCDF

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Report: CO2 not responsible for global warming

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/30/report-co2-not-responsible-for-global-warming/?print=1 – The Daily Caller – http://dailycaller.com – Report: CO2 not responsible for global warming Posted By Michael Bastasch On 11:03 PM 05/30/2013 In Daily Caller News Foundation | No Comments Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) — not carbon emissions — are the real culprit behind global warming, claims a  new study out of the University of Waterloo. [...]

Act on environmental catastrophe

Saturday, 01 June, 2013, 12:00am Comment› Letters On May 10, on his blog Al’s Journal, former US vice-president Al Gore wrote, “Yesterday, for the first time in human history, concentrations of carbon dioxide, the primary global warming pollutant, hit 400 parts per million in our planet’s atmosphere.” He said that every day we poured an [...]

Government must insist on taking polluting vehicles off our roads

Friday, 31 May, 2013, 12:00am Comment›Insight & Opinion Simon Ng Simon Ng says officials must insist on removing old polluting trucks from our roads because it benefits us all, including the affected drivers “I have been a lorry driver for my entire life and exposed to all sorts of fumes coming out of the exhaust. [...]

Amesa Dioxins and Furans Continuous Emissions Sampler

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