China’s “distant-water fishing” (DWF) activities are both figurative and literal. Figuratively, the term “fishing the high seas” (远洋捕捞, yuǎnyáng bǔlāo) describes the phenomenon of cash-strapped local authorities replenishing...
A crackdown on rural Jiangxi’s lithium sector that might snarl global supply chains has cast a spotlight on the conflict between rural economic development and environmental protection. Earlier this week, investigation teams...
The Environmental Justice Foundation, an environmental NGO based in London, released a new report, titled “The Ever-Widening Net: Mapping the Scale, Nature and Corporate Structures of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing...
China’s economic planners have wrested control over climate policy from bureaucrats in the environmental department, potentially jeopardizing efforts to meet emissions pledges made by Xi Jinping before the United Nation’s...
China’s central leaders have been waging an official “war on pollution” for nearly four years,...
A recent round of inspection checks by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
President-elect Donald Trump followed up on a key campaign talking point on Monday by announcing...
In January, China reported that the it’s coal use fell by just over 2 percent in 2014—the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
On Friday, a court in Hunan Province began hearing a landmark pollution lawsuit filed by a group...
Following the release of new State Council regulations seeking to promote more ecologically...
Two days into the annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) that began in...
As air quality in China continues to deteriorate, the government is trying various solutions to...
While delivering his government work report yesterday at the opening of the annual National...
Following a research report stating that Beijing’s environmental conditions are...
Citing a recent blue paper by the Social Sciences Academic Press and the Shanghai Academy of...
Rachel Stern is Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science at U.C. Berkeley, focusing on...
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