Environmental
Pollution and Health
Polluting
industries to move out of Beijing, Xinhuanet
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.
Pollution
From Asia Makes Pacific Storms Stronger, National Geographic
What happens in Asia doesn't stay in Asia , a new study warns.
Grain,
Poultry and Food Security
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
Seawater to
supply Beijing in 2019, Global Times
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
China
to Ban High Sulfur Coal Imports, economonitor
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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