Beijing says pollution lessened in 2015 despite smog alerts. (Madison.com, 1/5/2016)
Here's 2 items of particular interest:
- Beijing's municipal government has been replacing coal-fired boilers with natural gas-powered facilities, forcing older, more polluting vehicles off the road, and closing or moving factories that are heavy polluters.
- The environmental protection bureau attributed the lowering of sulfur dioxide to the phasing out of coal-fired heating systems. Beijing's air gets especially bad in the winter, when the burning of coal for heat in northern China increases and weather patterns add to the smog.
Related reading:
The End of Coal. (Foreign Policy, 12/10/20015)
Related post:
Top 10 coal-producing states (and a small sampling of their shills). (11/1/2015)
No friend to the environment: Republican Representative Brett Guthrie, Kentucky's 2nd Congressional District. (1/10/2015)
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