BEIJING — The State Council, or China’s cabinet, on Wednesday began soliciting public opinions on a draft regulation for the implementation of the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law, which will exempt electric cars, fuel-cell vehicles…
Category: Environment
ON A cold evening last month a mob of more than 200 broke through a wall and trashed the offices of the Zhejiang Haijiu Battery factory in the eastern Chinese village of Mengxi.They were reacting…
BEIJING – A new round of rain beginning on Monday was expected to batter Central, East and South China, where 98 people have died and 78 are missing due to rain-triggered floods, landslides and…
BEIJING — More than 600 people in China, including 103 children, have been found with high and sometimes dangerous levels of lead in their blood, state media said Monday, in the latest environmental health scare….
Thousands of people in eastern China are without tap water after a spill from a factory may have dumped toxic chemicals into a river, state media said on Wednesday. The spill comes just a…
You can find palm oil in just about every type of product—hand soap, lipstick, cookies, supplements, peanut butter. It’s even being used as biofuel. The relatively cheap commodity is noted for its stellar nutritional profile…
More than half of China’s cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said on Friday in a bleak…
20% price drop expected in five years as use of energy source rises BEIJING – The price of solar power in China is expected to drop by 20 percent in the next five years…
China has agreed to halt subsidies to wind power manufacturers that violate World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, according to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk. The move comes after the United Steelworkers Union filed a complaint…
A LEADING Chinese drugmaker in the country’s northeast has been exposed as having released pharmaceuticals into waterways and improperly burning medical waste, causing serious water, land and air contamination. Emissions from a factory operated by…