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According to the report by CMO of China (Central Meteorological Observatory), as the cold front approaches, north China will be clouded by sand from today until tomorrow morning.   The sky of west Gansu province, central and west Inner Mongolia, north Shanxi Province，central and north Hebei province ,Tianjin and Beijing will be shrouded by floating [...]

Since April, Beijing’s Environmental Protection Bureau has begun to monitor the pollution of dusty construction sites.   Now a special dust control office has also been launched.   The offending construction sites will be tracked, and special talks will be held with the officials from the special dust control office.   It is reported that [...]

The electric taxis have batteries that can be charged to 80 percent full in just 30 minutes and can run for 180 kilometers on urban roads after each charge.   The electric vehicles feature producing almost no pollution, little noise and even no need of maintenance. What’s more, it is reported that the cars will [...]

Beijing residents who buy new-energy vehicles will be given to a subsidy of up to 60,000 yuan, according to a new plan proposed by the local government.   The government plans to promote 30,000 new-energy vehicles in Beijing by the end of 2012, of which 23,000 will be electric vehicles and 7,000 hybrids.   The [...]

Local residents in the capital may start thinking twice before throwing an apple core into a bin for non-recyclable garbage as they may soon face a fine up to 200 yuan ($30).   The Beijing municipal government has drafted a regulation to manage rubbish disposal amid continuously rising levels of domestic waste resulting from the [...]

Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau said Beijing glowed with 25 good-air days in October.   The record of 25 days reaching the city’s air quality standard was one day better than the previous October.   Active cold air was a key factor in diffusing and eliminating air pollution, said experts at the Beijing municipal environmental monitoring [...]

China’s primary energy consumption will be kept to between 4 to 4.2 billion tonnes of standard coal by 2015, Jiang Bing, director of the development and planning department of the National Energy Administration (NEA), said on Saturday.   Jiang made the remarks at a forum held by the energy research institute of the State Grid [...]

The program, which was launched in the middle of September and is due to finish by Nov 20, covers old trees in all 16 districts and aims to rejuvenate 500 trees in two months, of which 300 are in Haidian district.   “In Haidian district, 4.6 million yuan will be spent on saving old trees,” [...]

Beijing saw its first fall-time heavy fog Friday, causing several highways to close in the morning. Experts have said the fog will continue to get worse over the weekend, especially in the south of the city, and will create worse traffic and air quality conditions until Monday. According to Sun Jisong, chief meteorologist of the [...]

BEIJING – China is beating its targets for reducing major air and water pollution for 2010, Environmental Protection Minister Zhou Shengxian said. On the back of that success, the country will include two more pollutants into its compulsory emission control program during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011 – 15) period. “China has dramatically boosted its [...]