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China outsourcing smog to West region stirs protest
2014-03-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Chinas leaders want to lift the gray blanket of deadly smog that often chokes Beijings residents by shifting power plants to the less populated western part of the country inhabited by minorities. Thats turning into a nightmare for Ani Yetahon who lives in Oriliq, a village about 1,800 miles from the capital where some residents still walk to the well for their water. Ever since a $2.1 billion plant that converts coal into natural gas began operating in August on a hill above his village, the...
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EPA launches smog crackdown with new auto emission standards
2014-03-04 03:43:30| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday unveiled long-awaited vehicle emissions standards, confirming plans to slash the sulfur content of fuel and reduce smog across the country. The agency released its so-called Tier 3 emissions standards, which are due to come into effect for cars and light trucks from 2017 in line with greenhouse gas emissions standards and are designed to cover air pollution-causing tailpipe emissions. The EPA said the rules would cut sulfur emissions by...
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Toxic smog 'driving China's brightest overseas'
2014-02-27 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Toxic smog is forcing a growing number of Chinese into overseas exile, state media has claimed, as the president vowed to attack the "root causes' of pollution after days of putrid skies in Beijing. Pollution was "driving the affluent and bright overseas' since they saw "no immediate end' to the smog, the Global Times newspaper said in a front page article. "The trend of 'smog emigration' is expected to continue, as improvements to air pollution through economic restructuring will not take...
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China: Beijing suffers under smog for seventh day
2014-02-26 11:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Beijing's official smog reading for PM 2.5 - small airborne particles which easily penetrate the lungs and have been linked to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths - stood at 501 micrograms per cubic metre on Wednesday afternoon. The World Health Organisation's recommended safe limit is 25. An alternative measure by the US embassy in Beijing said PM 2.5 levels were at 542 in the city. The capital was on its sixth day of an "orange" smog alert - the second-highest on the scale - with the air...
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Silencing China's zombie steel mills no solution for smog
2014-02-24 07:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Reforming the bloated steel sector in northern China's Hebei province is a key part of Beijing's efforts to cut air pollution - but it is the market, not the government, that is doing most of the work. That undermines state media claims that the government is going the extra mile to clean up Hebei, China's biggest steel producer and home to seven of the 10 most polluted cities in the country, environmentalists and industry experts said. Stirred by growing public anger over smog that often spreads...
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