From Shanghai Daily via China Environmental News Digest:
Local environment authorities in a city of northwestern China have promised to investigate a paper mill which reportedly discharged 2,000 tons of unsafe waste water into the Yellow River, further threatening the pollution-ridden waterway.
Early last week, tipsters told a local newspaper that the Baimei Paper Co in Lanzhou, capital city of Gansu Province, discharged a large amount of reddish brown, foaming waste water, likely untreated sewage, into the Wanchuan Creek, a tributary of the Yellow River….[Full Text]