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China to invest in energy saving industries to tackle pollution
2013-08-14 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China is to fast-track expansion and investment in energy saving technologies in an attempt to tackle its worsening pollution problems. China's cabinet, the State Council announced plans on Sunday to make the energy saving sector a "pillar" of the economy by 2015. In a statement the council said that under the new plan the environmental protection sector will grow by 15% on average annually, reaching an output of 4.5 trillion yuan (474 billion). China's massive economic growth has come at...
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Researchers Constrain The Sources Of Climate And Health-Afflicting Air Pollution From China
2013-08-12 06:40:35| pollutiononline News Articles
Particulate air pollution from incomplete combustion is affecting climate over East Asia more than carbon dioxide and cause premature deaths of over half a million annually in China alone, yet its sources have been poorly understood
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China to spend more to tackle dire pollution
2013-08-11 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China plans to accelerate investment in technology to save energy and tackle the dire pollution blamed for a series of health crises that have generated widespread public anger. The government has been increasingly alarmed by social unrest caused by environmental disasters and threats to public health, often the result of the country's breakneck industrial expansion and mass migration to new cities. Smog over northern cities in January generated a public outcry, as did the discovery in March of...
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Bad Apple: China Investigating Alleged Supplier Pollution
2013-08-05 17:43:30| TechNewsWorld
In what amounts to a serious environmental breach or a continuation of China's anti-Apple PR blitz -- or both -- Chinese regulators are scrutinizing a pair of Apple suppliers in China over pollution allegations. The factories in question, located in Kunshan, an electronics manufacturing hotbed about 40 miles west of Shanghai, are reportedly dumping large amounts of heavy metals into local rivers.
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ADEQ: Whirlpool pollution plume may be larger
2013-08-03 04:13:28| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has called into question a claim made by Whirlpool in their 2012/2013 Groundwater Monitoring Report, dated June 24 of this year.
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