China Environmental Law

The weekly Economic Observer (EO), which is quickly becoming my favorite China-based media read, has a great English page. I’ve picked a couple of articles with particular relevance for environmental issues to review for today’s post.
The first (in Chinese here) doesn’t mention the environment at all, but could have great impact on environmental enforcement in China.  [...]

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More citizen protests against the construction of potentially polluting facilities, this time in Chengdu. The New York Times is reporting that 400 to 500 Chengdu residents participated in a “stroll” through downtown streets on Sunday to express their concerns about a $5.5 billion combined ethylene plant and oil refinery under construction by a joint venture of [...]

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I was all set to write something edifying today when what do I discover but this China Daily article which picks up and runs with that preposterous Greenpeace smear job about multinational companies in China and their disregard for “standard operating procedures.” The article manages to get just about everything wrong, but who cares when you [...]

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For your Sunday reading, I direct you to this article regarding a family of crested ibises in Shanxi Province.  Here’s the happy mother (or father) and her (his) brood:

The Asian Crested Ibis (Nipponia Nippon, I doubt the Chinese frequently cite to this name) is Endangered.
In May 1981, Chinese scientists found the last seven wild crested ibises [...]

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I’ve expressed my lack of enthusiasm for some of the more well-known environmental groups operating in China recently, so let me now issue a “pat on the back” to a group whose work I admire in China: the Natural Resources Defense Council  (unfortunately its acronym NRDC is easily confused with the acronym for the National [...]

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As part of our continuing look at the newly amended Energy Conservation Law, we’ll review today those provisions which address the transportation and public (or governmental) sectors. 
Transportation
With respect to the transportation sector, the law basically punted. It encourages the development of regulations and provides that the State Council (and its relevant departments) shall
guide and promote coordinated [...]

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The Labor Day holiday begins today in China and runs through Saturday; Sunday is an official workday (to make up for the holiday on Friday). Unfortunately, I must continue to labor during this festive period on matters unrelated to this blog, but it will be a slow news period anyway.
There is one interesting article released [...]

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