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EU scraps plan to label tar sands oil as highly polluting
2014-10-07 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European Commission on Tuesday proposed scrapping a mandatory requirement to label tar sands oil as highly polluting after years of industry opposition. The new proposal abandons one obstacle to Canada shipping crude from tar sands to Europe and is likely to draw strong criticism from environmental campaigners and Green politicians. It is suggested in a revised draft law on how refiners report the carbon intensity of the fuel they supply. The debate about labelling tar sands, also known...
Beijing to stop polluting industries from further expanding in the city
2014-07-26 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Chinese capital has decided to put an end to further expansion of resource-intensive and polluting industries in the city, in an effort to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. Beijing local government said in a statement that the city has grown too much. Constantly-developing Beijing is now facing a series of problems, including overpopulation, congestion, water shortages and air pollution -- these deep-rooted problems are related to the fact that the city has too many functions,...
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Air Pollution App Seeks to Shame China's Most Polluting Factories
2014-06-10 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A new smartphone app seeks to shine a spotlight on major Chinese polluters by letting users see in real-time which factories are violating air pollution emissions limits. The app, developed by Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), uses data from some 15,000 factories throughout China that are now required to report emissions to local officials and the Environment Ministry on an hourly basis. The government made all the data public at the beginning of this year, but now,...
In Bid to Curb Smog, Beijing Plans to Scrap Polluting Older Vehicles
2014-05-27 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: For years, responsibility for curtailing Chinas massive ecological degradation fell to the relatively weak Ministry of Environment, which lacks staff resources and has nothing close to the political clout of the National Development and Reform Commission that manages the countrys economy. Many of the ministrys well-intentioned green initiatives have been announced, only to be ignored or unenforced. Meanwhile Beijings skies grew ever-grayer. Chinas influential State Council, chaired by Premier...
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Index identifies most polluting companies for divestment campaign
2014-05-04 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Fossil Free Indexes has released The Carbon Underground, a ranking of the worlds most polluting companies based on the potential climate impact of their reserves. The index is part of a campaign calling for investors to divest from coal, oil and gas companies. The campaign, which is spearheaded by international group 350.org, will now ask large investors, such as cities and universities, to sell their holdings in the 200 companies that make up the list. The organisation argues that divesting...
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