Daily News April 22, 2014

Environmental Pollution and Health

China Revises 25-Year Environment Law as Pollution Chokes Nation, IBTimes

Beijing has passed amendments to China's 25-year old environmental protection law that will now target polluters in the world's biggest carbon emitter with tougher penalties.

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China's legislature adopts revised Environmental Protection Law

Water Crisis

Copper mine wastewater contaminates NW China river， Xinhuanet

A wastewater leak from a copper mine has contaminated a river and nearby grassland in northwest China's Qinghai Province, government authorities said on Thursday.

Northwestern Chinese City Counts Cost of Major Water Pollution Scandal

Residents of Lanzhou, Gansu Province, are angry to learn their water supply facilities ran through an area contaminated by a petrochemical plant

Pollution stops water supply in Wuhan, 300,000 people affected, Wantchinatimes

Two major water suppliers in a central China city have halted production following water contamination in a local river on Wednesday, affecting more than 300,000 people, local authorities said.

Energy Development and Problem

Industry skeptical about shipping refined oil to Asia, vancouversun

 Economics challenging, and Asia looking for raw bitumen, analysts say

China to embrace third-gen nuclear tech in new plants, wantchinatimes

On top of a proposal to resume nuclear power construction projects in eastern China, Premier Li Keqiang has unveiled plan to substitute concentrated high-efficiency utilization of coal for general utilization, for the sake of combating air pollution.