Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Daily News April 15, 2014

Environmental Pollution and Health

Six heavily polluting industries, all involving manufacturing, will move out of Beijing, said a senior official of the Beijing municipal government during a dialogue with citizens on March 8.

The government of the industrial city of Tianjin in northern China said it would not approve any new steel, cement or non-ferrous metalsplants in a bid to fight pollution, state media reported on Tuesday.

Long-awaited amendments to China's 1989 Environmental Protection Law are expected to be finalised later this year, giving the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) greater authority to take on polluters.

What happens in Asia doesn't stay in Asia, a new study warns.

Grain, Poultry and Food Security

China is stepping up regulation of food manufacturers and retailers. David Ettinger from law firm Keller and Heckman talks about the latest changes in the country’s food standards.

The Chinese pork producer that bought Smithfield Foods Inc. is planning to sell its shares at a valuation of 15 times to 20.8 times its forecast earnings for its multibillion-dollar initial public offering in Hong Kong, said people familiar with the situation Wednesday, valuing WH Group at up to $21.2 billion.

Water security

Desalinated seawater will supply a third of Beijingers' domestic tap water starting 2019, a city water company announced on Monday.

Chinese scientists are expected to finish designing a monitoring network on water quality "from the source to tap" by 2015, said a senior environmental scientist here on Monday.

A Chinese court has rejected a lawsuit filed by five residents from a major northwestern city after authorities said a cancer-inducing chemical had been found in tapwater at 20 times above national safety levels, state media reported on Tuesday.

On Friday the government of Lanzhou, China, informed its 3.6 million residents that their drinking water would be carcinogenic for the next 24 hours.

Energy Problem

The purchase adds to a multibillion-dollar string of foreign acquisitions by China's government-owned energy and mining companies


In an effort to clean up the choking smog in many major Chinese cities, the Chinese government plans onbanning imports of high sulfur coal. 

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