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Posts on ‘July 30th, 2009’

Cleaner air objectives are inadequate

SCMP We welcome the long-overdue review of air quality objectives and the newly proposed strategies for air pollution control by the Environmental Protection Department. The underlying principles of protecting public health, the long-term goal of adopting the targets set by the World Health Organisation and the need for a regular review of Hong Kong’s air [...]

Clean bill of health

Christine Loh, SCMP The government must be told, in no uncertain terms, that it has a duty to protect the public from pollution Pollution is profitable. Major emitters harm our health and they have got away with it for far too long. But the government, as a whole, hasn’t quite understood this yet. Nevertheless, we [...]