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False emissions reporting undermines China's pollution fight
2016-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: Widespread misreporting of harmful gas emissions by Chinese electricity firms is threatening the country`s attempts to rein in pollution, with government policies aimed at generating cleaner power struggling to halt the practice. Coal-fired power accounts for three-quarters of China`s total generation capacity and is a major source of the toxic smog that shrouded much of the country`s north last month, prompting "red alerts" in dozens of cities, including the capital, Beijing. But the government...
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Which?: Most cars break pollution laws
2016-01-20 17:45:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Consumer association Which? say it has collected together data which show most cars break EU pollution laws when driven.
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False emissions reporting undermines China's pollution fight
2016-01-17 19:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Widespread misreporting of harmful gas emissions by Chinese electricity firms is threatening the country's attempts to rein in pollution, with government policies aimed at generating cleaner power struggling to halt the practice. Coal-fired power accounts for three-quarters of China's total generation capacity and is a major source of the toxic smog that shrouded much of the country's north last month, prompting "red alerts" in dozens of cities, including the capital Beijing. But the government...
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India: Yucky pollution, says my daughter, as Delhi chokes
2016-01-16 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is a very ordinary weekday morning. I am taking my children to school, a 10-minute journey if the traffic is good, double that if it is not. A very normal checklist: sports kit, spare jumper and, of course, face mask. It is eight oclock, the worst time of the day for pollution. Through the windows of the car pooled with a neighbour the smog is a thick yellow. The outlines of buildings, even trees, only a hundred or so metres away are blurred and vague. I check the air monitor readings...
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Air pollution: a dark cloud of filth poisons the worlds cities
2016-01-16 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: During these cold winter days, Anumita Choudhury dare not leave her small second-floor apartment in Delhis northern suburbs. Elderly now, she has developed asthma. The last time she ventured into the streets of the worlds second most populous city she began gasping for breath and had to be helped home by her neighbours. The story is the same in many of the worlds great cities. From Kabul in Afghanistan to Hong Kong and Shijiazhuang in China, and from Lima to So Paulo in Latin America, people...
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