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Hit 'Em Where It Hurts Chinese bosses could see salary cuts for water pollution		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:47 PM on 27 Feb 2008 China is considering a law that would cut a head honcho's income by up to half if his or her company was found to be "directly responsible for causing severe water pollution incidents." From the Archives Good Luck, Little Buddy. Renewable-energy bill passes House, likely to be short-lived. Time Is Money. Daylight-saving time leads to higher energy ...
Topics: business, China, greening biz operations, legislation, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Wan Lake China unveils plan to fix polluted lakes		23 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:35 PM on 23 Jan 2008 China has unveiled a plan to limit pollution in its lakes by 2010 and return lakes to their original, unpolluted state by 2030. Officials have specific plans to attain their goal: strictly regulate release of wastewater, close factories that heavily contribute to water pollution, improve sewage treatment, remove or limit fish farms, and ban highly toxic pesticides and phosphorus-containing detergents near large l ...
Topics: China, news, progress, water pollution (all these topics)

The River Defiled Record amount of sewage dumped into China's Yangtze River		14 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 14 Nov 2007 Last year, China's state media deemed the Yangtze River "cancerous" with pollution; to stick with the analogy, it appears the cancer has spread, as a record amount of sewage was dumped into the river in 2006. That's 30.5 beeeeeellion tons of (mostly untreated) industrial and human waste, an increase of 3.1 percent over the year before. sources: Xinhua, Agence France-Presse < ...
Topics: China, news, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Have You Herd? China relocates Tibetan herders in interest of environment		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:48 PM on 03 Oct 2007 Ugh: China is ordering 100,000 ethnic Tibetans to give up their traditional nomadic habits and settle in towns because their way of life is threatening the environment, state press reported Tuesday. Glaciers in the province where the herders live are an initial source for both the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers; somehow we imagine that the impact on the rivers from overgrazing and erosion pales ...
Topics: China, insanity, news, Tibet, water pollution (all these topics)

Gorges Ain't Gorgeous China's Three Gorges Dam plagued by environmental problems		30 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Gorges Ain't Gorgeous China's Three Gorges Dam plagued by environmental problems China's Three Gorges Dam got a lot of flak during construction for its environmental impact and for uprooting over 1 million people. A year after its completion, critics' concern about the world's largest hydroelectric project has only increased. The weight of the water behind the dam, along with frequent water-level changes, has begun to e ...
Topics: China, dams, news, water pollution (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Familiar China's environment still terribly polluted, getting worse		27 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
And Now for Something Completely Familiar China's environment still terribly polluted, getting worse Almost nowhere else on earth today is a source for so much environmental gloom and doom as China. To sum up: It's bad. In fact, for those prone to hopelessness ... read on, there's plenty to get depressed about. Nearly 500 million people in China lack access to safe drinking water. About 750,000 people die every ...
Topics: air pollution, China, news, water pollution (all these topics)

That's a Mighty Full Circular File Faced with rampant pollution, China reports increase in citizen protests		05 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
That's a Mighty Full Circular File Faced with rampant pollution, China reports increase in citizen protests The sorry state of air and water quality in China has led to rising public protests, says a top environment agent there -- and citizens and officials alike are urging the country to crack down on polluters. In the first five months of 2007, the State Environmental Protecti ...
Topics: air pollution, business, China, grassroots activism, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Soon We Can Just Call It the Styx Yangtze River so polluted it's on the verge of death		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 ...
Topics: China, news, pollution and waste, water pollution, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Torch Songhua China chemical-spill crisis eases, but water's still not safe to drink		28 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Torch Songhua China chemical-spill crisis eases, but water's still not safe to drink As Americans gorged on turkey and pumpkin pie, a 50-mile-long toxic chemical spill was flowing along the Songhua River through northern China -- the worst environmental disaster in the nation's recent history. The crisis began on Nov. 13, when two explosions at a state-owned petrochemical plant in Jilin killed five workers, injured 70 ...
Topics: China, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Shanghai Hopes China plans even bigger expansion of its clean-energy capacity		08 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Shanghai Hopes China plans even bigger expansion of its clean-energy capacity China yesterday announced plans to more than double its clean-energy capacity -- from 7 percent of electricity production today to about 15 percent by 2020, up from a previous goal of 10 percent. While this could make the country a leading global player in the hydropower, solar, and wind industries, it still wouldn't offset the country's climate-dama ...
Topics: China, news, water pollution (all these topics)

East Meets Quest China, in quest to be more efficient, could take a lesson from Japan		07 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
East Meets Quest China, in quest to be more efficient, could take a lesson from Japan China just kicked off a new $80 million venture to boost energy efficiency and slash pollution; it aims to quadruple its gross domestic product by 2020 while merely (!) doubling its energy consumption. For inspiration, China might look to its neighbor and sometime rival to the east: In Japan, energy use in industry has been flat since ...
Topics: China, Japan, news, water pollution (all these topics)

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