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No More Bull in the China Shop China orders corrupt environmental protection officials to go straight		22 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
No More Bull in the China Shop China orders corrupt environmental protection officials to go straight In the wake of several destructive and internationally embarrassing pollution disasters, China is ordering local environmental protection officials to start, um, protecting the environment. A government announcement on Tuesday warned officials to stop covering up accidents, turning a blind eye to polluting projects, and canceling penalties for ...
Topics: China, news (all these topics)

You Be Spillin' China faces two more toxic river crises		10 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
You Be Spillin' China faces two more toxic river crises Two new toxic spills have hit rivers in central China. Last week, cadmium seeped out of silt dredged in a cleanup effort on the industrialized Xiangjiang River, contaminating a 60-odd mile stretch of the waterway, and a broken pipe at a power plant dumped six tons of diesel fuel into a tributary of the Yellow River. Chinese officials are down ...
Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Yellow River (all these topics)

Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting		09 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific climate partnership will kick off this Wednesday in Australia. The six participating nations -- Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. -- will emphasize the transfer of clean technologies to developing countries, in ...
Topics: Australia, China, climate, India, Japan, news, South Korea, United States (all these topics)

Fry Me a River China's benzene spill flows toward Siberian tiger territory in Russia		07 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Fry Me a River China's benzene spill flows toward Siberian tiger territory in Russia China's latest claim to international infamy -- a Songhua River-borne, 100-ton, 90-odd-mile-long benzene spill -- is expected to reach the Russian city of Khabarovsk, on the Amur River, next week. Conservationists in the region worry that the toxic slick will further imperil the extremely endangered Siberian tiger, whic ...
Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, Russia, toxics (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)

WSJ: China's oil-demand surge slackens	Tom Philpott	09 Nov 2005	Gristmill
Peak-oil enthusiasts and skeptics alike will find much to chew on in this page-one piece from today's Wall Street Journal. By all accounts, China's explosive energy-demand growth over the past several years has strained the ability of OPEC and other oil producers to keep up. Now, the Journal claims, that pressure shows signs of easing: This year, China is on track to account for about 16% of the world's new oil consumption, little more than half last year's share. Th ...
Topics: China, energy, oil (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)

Arup and at 'Em China hires British engineers to create self-sufficient urban centers		07 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Arup and at 'Em China hires British engineers to create self-sufficient urban centers Remember Logan's Run, the futuristic 1970s sci-fi flick where sex-crazed twentysomethings lived in a self-contained city sealed off from the ravages of a devastated environment? Seems reality might be catching up with fiction: China's hiring British firm Arup to design and build up to five "eco-cities" that will be self ...
Topics: China, news, placemaking, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Gaggin' China's economic boom leading to dreadful air quality		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 ...
Topics: air pollution, China, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Uplifting news about endangered species Pharmaceuticals may be saving species	Corey McKrill	11 Oct 2005	Gristmill
You may have heard that measurable levels of pharmaceuticals have been turning up in water supplies, causing concern about the potential effects on wildlife. But did you hear that they may also help preserve endangered species? As noted today on Green Media, a recent study shows that, in China at least, widespread availability of Viagra-type drugs has decreased the demand for endangered animal body parts used to treat erectile dysfunction in traditional Chinese medici ...
Topics: China, endangered species, health, wildlife (all these topics)

Batting a Thousand Scientists trace SARS to bats, blame human mucking with nature	Katharine Wroth	29 Sep 2005	Main Dish
In a move likened to "a microbiological episode of CSI," a team of scientists has uncovered the culprit behind a disease that shook the world -- and that could very well strike again. Researchers announced today that they've traced the global SARS epidemic, which spread to 26 countries and infected thousands of people, to one small creature: the horseshoe bat. Small bat, big ...
Topics: China, health, World Health Organization (all these topics)

Ban on the Run Chinese consider legalizing domestic trade in tiger parts		27 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Ban on the Run Chinese consider legalizing domestic trade in tiger parts China may soon drop its domestic trade ban on tigers and goods made from tiger parts, which has been in place since 1993. Though the change under consideration would only allow trade based on farm-bred, captive tigers, wildlife campaigners worry that it would push up demand and encourage illegal poaching of wild animals. Nearly every part o ...
Topics: China, news, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

China Pattern China may boost use of renewables, efforts to fight climate change		06 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
China Pattern China may boost use of renewables, efforts to fight climate change Recent developments show China making concerted efforts to boost its use of clean energy and engage the world community in efforts to battle global warming. Late last week, China and the European Union announced a deal that would have the formidable economic powers sharing technology and techniques to mitigate carbon-dioxide emissions. And Monday ...
Topics: China, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

Athens Never Looked So Good Beijing struggles with pollution, gridlock as 2008 Olympics approach		29 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Athens Never Looked So Good Beijing struggles with pollution, gridlock as 2008 Olympics approach China has promised to throw a "green" Olympics in Beijing in 2008 -- but simple livability may be the megacity's bigger challenge. Beijing has 15.2 million inhabitants; if current trends hold, that number could grow to 21 million by 2020. Gridlock is endemic, as the number of cars more than doubled in the past six ...
Topics: China, environmental planning, news (all these topics)

China Syndromes Will hard-won environmental and social gains survive China's economic rise?	John Elkington, Mark Lee	23 Aug 2005	Full Disclosure
By John Elkington and Mark Lee 23 Aug 2005
Topics: Bill McDonough, business, China, consumerism, Full Disclosure, globalization, politics (all these topics)

Too Many CNOOCs Spoil the Broth Chinese oil firm withdraws takeover bid for Unocal		02 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Too Many CNOOCs Spoil the Broth Chinese oil firm withdraws takeover bid for Unocal State-owned Chinese oil company CNOOC has announced the withdrawal of its $18.5 billion offer for Unocal, clearing the way for rival bidder Chevron Corp. -- which, we rush to assure you, is safely 'merican owned -- to purchase America's ninth-largest producer of oil. CNOOC, China's largest offshore oil and natural gas company, state ...
Topics: China, energy, news, oil, United States (all these topics)

Mad in China Chinese villagers riot to keep polluting pharmaceutical plant closed		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, ...
Topics: China, news, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

The Axis of Oil China gets pushy about finding oil and gas supplies outside Mideast		15 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
The Axis of Oil China gets pushy about finding oil and gas supplies outside Mideast Historians cataloguing the unintended consequences of the Iraq war can add another to their list. Until 2003, China had been wooing Saddam Hussein, hoping to lay claim to some of Iraq's undeveloped oil reserves. But the U.S.-led war, perceived by China's leaders as a bid to secure geopolitical hegemony in the Middle East, KO'd th ...
Topics: business, China, energy, Iraq, news, oil (all these topics)

CNOOC-ered Bush security adviser helped firm land lobbying gig for Chinese oil co.		12 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
CNOOC-ered Bush security adviser helped firm land lobbying gig for Chinese oil co. The bid by state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation to purchase U.S. oil and gas producer Unocal has raised hackles among some national-security types. So it may seem odd that James C. Langdon Jr., the chair of President Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board -- a group with security clearance greater than even ...
Topics: business, China, energy, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

A Shot Across the Mao State-controlled Chinese oil company makes big bid for America's Unocal		24 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
A Shot Across the Mao State-controlled Chinese oil company makes big bid for America's Unocal China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), a state-controlled Chinese oil company, is making an $18.5 billion bid to take over California-based oil and gas firm Unocal, which has extensive Asian operations. Rival bidder Chevron warns that China will have the power to raise energy prices for U.S. consumers if CNOOC prevai ...
Topics: business, China, energy, news, oil (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)

Olympic Heights Green-roof project aims to clean up Beijing for Olympics		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 ...
Topics: China, environmental planning, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

"But Dave," you're thinking, "what about China?" Stats on the biggest kid on the Asian block.	David Roberts	13 May 2005	Gristmill
Our fascination with China around these parts is well-known. However, we're not so fascinated that we want to read long, number-filled reports about it. I mean, it's Friday fer chrissake. So, we let Joel Makower do that work for us. He waded through WorldWatch's just-released "Vital Signs 2," a compendium of info on worldwide environmental trends, and found lots of tasty (and, okay, some terrifying) tidbits on the world's fastest growing bi ...
Topics: China (all these topics)

Rice-A-Phony China, Europe experiencing illegal GM crop introductions		18 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Rice-A-Phony China, Europe experiencing illegal GM crop introductions Two delicious scandals are brewing over the illegal introduction of genetically modified crops -- rice in China and corn in Europe -- onto the open market. In China, Greenpeacers sounded the GM alarm after buying bags of an "anti-pest" variety of rice, sending them to biotech labs, and finding that some of the grains were genetic ...
Topics: China, European Union, GMOs, Greenpeace, news (all these topics)

Do the Riot Thing Chemical factory pollution sparks riot in eastern China		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 ...
Topics: China, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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