South China Morning Post CLEAR THE AIR SAYS: IF TAINTED PEOPLE ARE VOTED IN BY RIGGED VOTES THE ENVIRONMENT AND OUR AIR QUALITY STAND NO CHANCE OF IMPROVEMENT WHEN THOSE VESTED INTERESTS ARE CONTROLLED BY THEIR DEVIOUS FINANCING PUPPETEERS. SCMP Dec 14, 2011 ID card checks not thorough Jeremy Newton’s letter about somebody having used [...]
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LCQ9: Emission reduction measures of franchised buses
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201112/14/P201112140163.htm Following is a question by the Hon Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung and a written reply by the Secretary for the Environment, Mr Edward Yau, in the Legislative Council today (December 14): Question: In his 2010-2011 Policy Address, the Chief Executive proposed to retrofit the Euro II and Euro III buses of franchised bus companies with catalytic reduction [...]
Violators beware
http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4679 China’s burgeoning green laws pose challenges for international firms – and those who don’t stay ahead risk reputation and money. Justin Gerdes hears the message loud and clear at a chinadialogue seminar. “Penalties can be particularly onerous for foreign entities because, in many instances, they tend to be targeted defendants. The assumption is that they have more [...]
Living with China’s ‘crazy bad’ smog
http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/08/living-with-chinas-crazy-bad-smog/ CNN Asia Business Analyst, Ramy Inocencio Hong Kong (CNN) – I roll my eyes when people here in Hong Kong complain this city’s air quality is bad. My reply? Try living in Beijing. This past week we saw some of the worst smog to smother China’s capital this year. More than 360 flights were [...]
Hong Kong’s pollution shame
http://asiancorrespondent.com/71377/hong-kong-pollution-shame/ In a World Health Organization survey, Hong Kong is embarrassingly ranked among the worst in a list of 500 cities in terms of levels of fine particles in the air. If you’re in Central’s roads on a busy weekday, or perhaps any day, you are exposed to the city’s greatest concentration of large particles. [...]
China’s pollution data shrouded in official fog thew world is getting smart about PM2.5!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iy6Vhf2-USzUGf9er-e4Zsmb7tTA?docId=faecfc019f314180a45294c863221e66 BEIJING (AP) — Armed with a device that looks like an old transistor radio, some Beijing residents are recording pollution levels and posting them online. It’s an act that borders on subversion. The government keeps secret all data on the fine particles that shroud China’s capital in a health-threatening smog most days. But as [...]
China’s pollution, a toxic issue
BBC News The smog over Beijing has gone – for now Thankfully the foul smog that has hung over Beijing for several days has cleared. But what it has left behind is a sense, as clear as the sky was now blue, that the capital’s pollution is far more than just an environmental problem, it [...]
Pollution from China alters weather in U.S. West – CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57341838/pollution-from-china-alters-w eather-in-u.s-west/ CBS News A U.N. conference on climate change ended Sunday without a major deal to cut toxic emissions. No country emits more carbon dioxide than China – a byproduct of its booming economy. And, as CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports, those Chinese emissions are having a big impact in the U.S. Chinese [...]
China’s toxic soup
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/ML14Ad01.html China’s toxic soup By Kent Ewing HONG KONG – When residents of this city – now a special administrative region of China – complain about rising levels of air pollution that sometimes shroud its world-famous skyline in a murky pall of gray, they can cheer themselves with the thought: At least I don’t live [...]