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Beijing to enforce use clean coal in anti-pollution drive
2014-07-12 13:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's capital city, Beijing, will enforce the use of cleaner low-sulphur coal from Aug. 1 in a bid to tackle the soaring levels of air pollution that frequently clog the country's major cities, the official Xinhua media agency said on Saturday. Beijing will implement strict controls and targets for airborne sulphur from coal, Xinhua said, citing the Beijing Municipal Administration of Quality and Technology Supervision. This is the first time China has enforced the use of low-sulphur coal...
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China take 5 million old cars off road in 2014 in anti-pollution push
2014-05-26 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China plans to take more than 5 million ageing vehicles off its roads this year in a bid to improve air quality, with 330,000 cars set to be decommissioned in Beijing alone, the government said in a policy document published on Monday. Pollution has emerged as an urgent priority for China's leaders as they try to reverse the damage done by decades of breakneck growth and head off public anger about the state of the nation's air, water and soil. In a wide-ranging action plan to cut emissions...
Beijing slashes car sales quota in anti-pollution drive
2013-11-05 12:12:57| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said.
Beijing slashes car sales quota in anti-pollution drive
2013-11-05 10:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said. The change in policy gives greater support for new, cleaner cars and could strengthen foreign carmakers' determination to accelerate growth in China's less crowded lower-tier cities. In the last month alone, high levels of pollution have forced...
China's anti-pollution drive risks running out of gas
2013-10-29 21:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A chronic shortage of natural gas is hurting China's plan to move away from burning coal to heat homes and offices, raising the prospect of more choking air pollution this winter and beyond. The problem is worst in northern China, where air pollution mainly caused by decades of reliance on coal has lowered life expectancy by an estimated 5.5 years compared to the south, Chinese and international researchers said in July. The frigid northeastern city of Harbin, home to 11 million people, virtually...