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Popular Criticism Cracks China’s Wall of Denial About Pollution

While the Chinese government has tried for years to downplay environmental problems in the country, citizens are now taking matters into their own hands, the New York Times reports:Officials have claimed for years that the air quality in fast-growing China is constantly improving. Beijing, for example, was said to have experienced a record 274 “blue sky” days in 2011, a statistic belied by the he