Tag: Air pollution

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When Good Environmental Policies Go Wrong

China’s central leaders have been waging an official “war on pollution” for nearly four years, amid which local officials have been held responsible for ecologically unfriendly policies, once secretive air quality data has become required and made public, an environmental protection law has been passed, and coal use has dropped contributing to a cut in emissions. Alongside the national campaign, the Beijing municipality and surrounding local governments