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Year of the Draggin'
China had a cruddy eco-year, still sees big picture more clearly than the U.S. |
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11 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Year of the Draggin' China had a cruddy eco-year, still sees big picture more clearly than the U.S. In China, officials are assessing their 2006 eco-successes. The short version: there were none. The somewhat longer version: the country saw a pollution-related accident roughly every two days. Officials got 600,000 environmental complaints, 30 percent more than in 2005. Goals to improve efficiency by 4 percent and cut emiss ... |
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| Topics: China, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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The Great Pall of China
Despite cleanup efforts, China's environment just keeps getting worse |
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06 Jun 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Great Pall of China Despite cleanup efforts, China's environment just keeps getting worse China's efforts toward environmental protection in the last five years have ... how do we say this nicely? ... totally flopped. The country's economy is growing about 10 percent annually, but with pollution reduction targets based on an economic growth rate of 7.5 percent, the environment is taking a hit. According to a government ... |
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Soon We Can Just Call It the Styx
Yangtze River so polluted it's on the verge of death |
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30 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Soon We Can Just Call It the Styx Yangtze River so polluted it's on the verge of death The Yangtze River is "cancerous" with pollution -- mainly industrial waste and agricultural runoff -- according to reports in China's state media. Experts estimate that within five years, up to 70 percent of its water may be unusable, particularly as drinking water for the 186 cities that borde ... |
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| Topics: China, news, pollution and waste, water pollution, Yangtze River (all these topics) |
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Hell Bent for Leather
Chinese villagers attack polluting leather factories and sewage plant |
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12 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Hell Bent for Leather Chinese villagers attack polluting leather factories and sewage plant Environmental protests are increasingly common in China, where environmental protection often takes a backseat to cronyism and profit-making. But a group of 200 Chinese villagers in the eastern province of Fujian, fed up with drinking polluted water, took things a step further. Armed with iron bars, they attacked two leather factori ... |
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Gaggin'
China's economic boom leading to dreadful air quality |
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31 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Gaggin' China's economic boom leading to dreadful air quality China's zooming economy is a wonder of the modern world, but the eco-toll is becoming increasingly severe. Acid rain affects about a third of the country, approximately 70 percent of its lakes and rivers are polluted, and more than 400,000 Chinese a year are estimated to die prematurely due to extreme air pollution. And th ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, China, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Mad in China
Chinese villagers riot to keep polluting pharmaceutical plant closed |
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19 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Mad in China Chinese villagers riot to keep polluting pharmaceutical plant closed Thousands of Chinese protestors battled police for hours on Sunday night in an effort to stop a polluting plant from resuming operations. Villagers in Xinchang, China, 180 miles south of Shanghai, say corrupt local officials have refused to do anything about chemical wastes from the Jingxin Pharmaceutical Co. that have ruined crops, ... |
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| Topics: China, news, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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Olympic Heights
Green-roof project aims to clean up Beijing for Olympics |
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23 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Olympic Heights Green-roof project aims to clean up Beijing for Olympics With the 2008 Olympics in Beijing inching closer, the Chinese are hard at work cleaning up the notoriously smog-ridden city. Polluting factories are being relocated, new pipelines are bringing in natural gas to replace dirty coal, and higher emissions standards are being applied to the city's millions of cars. A green-rooftop ... |
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| Topics: China, environmental planning, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Do the Riot Thing
Chemical factory pollution sparks riot in eastern China |
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12 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Do the Riot Thing Chemical factory pollution sparks riot in eastern China Thousands of farmers rioted in a village in eastern China over the weekend, taking a stand against encroachment of the country's fast-growing industries onto their land, and the pollution and health problems that result. Villagers had set up roadblocks to interfere with deliveries to and from the 13 chemical plants in the area that now sit on what us ... |
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