China Environmental Law

We’ve about reached our pontification limit for the week here at CELB, so will avoid in depth analysis today and give you a quick tour of a few other China environmental stories making the headlines.
Environmental Protests
More than 1,000 residents in Zhentou, Hunan Province, “demonstrated outside local government headquarters and a police station, demanding greater compensation [...]

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Yesterday I wrote about my misgivings concerning the Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance Cooperation on Climate Change, Energy and Environment (MOU) signed at the conclusion of the US-China S&ED.  It is the flimsiest and vaguest of agreements (except for the loaded paragraph inserted at China’s insistence), yet now we learn from Chinese State Councilor Dai [...]

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When we are wrong here at CELB we’re cyber enough to admit it.  It was just Monday we were confidently predicting that the latest US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue would be a snoozer on the climate change front (and probably all other fronts as well, but that’s beyond our scope).  Imagine then our shock when [...]

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Looks like everyone is playing “decode the President.”  Here is what Obama said during his opening remarks at the latest round of the US-China S&ED:
“And the best way to foster the innovation that can increase our security and prosperity is to keep our markets open to new ideas, new exchanges, and new sources of energy.
Brad [...]

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Oh look it’s time for another round of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.  Actually this is the first dialogue since an ampersand was added to title to reflect the expansion of its scope beyond economic issues (although Paulson had already moved the talks into other areas finding that little progress was possible on the [...]

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At the end of his trip to China in May, Senator Kerry was feeling positively giddy about the prospects of a deal with China at Copenhagen:
“Based on these meetings, I am very optimistic at the possibility of producing a successful outcome in Copenhagen,” said Kerry.
He described his talks in Beijing as the “most constructive and [...]

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You may have noticed that my posting has been spotty this week.  A well-intentioned friend of the blog hearing of my predicament ghosted a post to fill the void. I’m assured it’s brilliant.  Here it is:
No time today, but I want to ask my readers to consider interesting implications of two articles appearing in popular [...]

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This news item was pointed out to me by my friend and fellow Shanghai-based environmental lawyer, Dayton Carpenter.
A judgment of RMB80,000 has been entered against the Korean WFOE, Cangzhou Chengyuan Cosmetics Co Limited (Chengyuan) for the cancer death of a neighbor to its facility in Hebei Province.
Here are the facts as we know them:  Chengyuan [...]

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I’ve been meaning to do a post on the labor and environmental records of China’s “green” poster companies, but haven’t had the time to devote to it yet.  My supposition is that many of those companies in the vanguard of China’s green revolution are no better than the average Guangdong toy manufacture when it comes [...]

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Back from a wonderful trip to Jiangxi Province.  I’ll try to post some photographs and a write-up later.
Secretaries Chu and Locke have been here this week.  They were touring “Future House USA“ (in the house of the future form apparently follows function, but this structure is depressingly ugly) while I was visiting August 1st Square in [...]

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