Joyce Man, SCMP – May 30, 2009 Taxi drivers have vowed to oppose proposed legislation banning them from idling their engines while parked – which causes pollution but keeps the air conditioner running – after a driver was fined for getting angry with a passenger who left his car because it was too hot. Taxi [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
World Environment Day 2009
Source: http://www.unep.org/wed/2009/english/content/tips.asp Easily Green Your Daily Routine This year’s theme for World Environment Day (WED) is Your Planet Needs You! UNite to Combat Climate Change. But too often we are presented with environmental problems without being given the tools to act. WED is about taking action to be a part of the solution. And the [...]
Green Island Cries Foul Over Eco-report Clause
STAFF REPORTER of HK Standard – May 25, 2009 Green Island Cement (Holdings) has described as “irresponsible” and “illogical” the government’s move to slap a HK$20 million environment assessment report requirement before allowing it to bid for a sludge management project. Green Island – a subsidiary of Cheung Kong Infrastructure – said it was given [...]
Pollutant Control Tightened
EPD – 22 May 09 A new law has been gazetted to further control the emissions of volatile organic compounds – a major category of pollutants causing the smog that reduces Hong Kong’s visibility. The Air Pollution Control (Volatile Organic Compounds) (Amendment) Regulation will extend the existing control on products containing such compounds to vehicle [...]
No More Bottled Water!
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Asthma Group Condemns Plan To Adopt Lax Pollution Targets
Joyce Ng, SCMP – May 04, 2009 The Hong Kong Asthma Society has joined other groups in criticising the government’s proposed adoption of the World Health Organisation’s minimum air-quality targets. Society chairman Alfred Tam Yat-cheung said lax targets for reducing fine particles – known as PM2.5 and PM10 – were particularly unacceptable because they were [...]