After detection of high levels of cadmium in the tributaries of the Pearl River, officials claim that the levels of the poisonous chemical found in batteries has been successfully diluted. The chemical spill threatened the water...
Read MoreThe Council on Foreign Relations’ Elizabeth Economy sees Sunday’s mass protests in Dalian as an encouraging sign that “once again civil society has emerged at the forefront of a push for political...
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times finds the link between disposable chopsticks and China’s deadly landslides: With summer floods devastating southern, western and northeastern China, a massive oil spill smothering the Yellow Sea off...
Read MoreReuters: A CNPC crew has been trying to stop a 150,000 liter diesel spill from reaching the Yellow River: The leak, from a pipeline owned by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in northwestern Shaanxi province, was...
Read MoreBloomberg profiles Xie Zhenhua, former head of China’s state environmental protection agency and now the country’s chief negotiator in Copenhagen: Xie, who resigned after an explosion at a PetroChina Co. plant...
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: “Can you smell something?” Zhang Yadong stands on the banks of a murky stream and wrinkles his nose at the salty odor. The Chinese government has promised for years to clean up this section of the...
Read MoreThese are some excerpts on the anti-Maglev demonstrations in Shanghai over the past two weeks. These different voices are from the bolder media (Southern Metropolis Daily), Shanghai netizens, and newspapers controlled by Shanghai authorities. The first one is an editorial in Southern Metropolis Daily on Jan. 14, 2008, translated by CDT: Editorial: Taking a Walk […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Southern Breeze magazine: To Chinese environmental officials, scientists and NGOs, 2007 has been the worst year, and the best year. It’s the worst year because of a spate of major environmental cases across the country: the blue algae bloom in Lake Tai, the rat disaster around Lake Dongting, the near-failure of […]
Read MoreRussian officials have become impatient with China after several failed attempts to agree on measures to address river pollution. Russia estimates that China will dump millions of tons of waste into rivers that flow into Russia in coming years. From Eurasia Daily Monitor: Russian Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev traveled to China August 31-September 4, […]
Read MoreTwo of China’s largest oil producers are saying they will refuse to respect a new regulation requiring certain companies to purchase pollution insurance to cover environmental compensation claims, according to a state media report. From AFP via Yahoo! Asia News: Sinopec and CNPC, parent of Hong Kong-listed PetroChina, said that they can handle environmental compensation […]
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