China Environmental Law

Two interesting pieces of news have emerged from China’s just concluded ”national energy work session.”  cnYES reports (Chinese only) that:    
1. The public comments submitted with respect to China’s Energy Law have been carefully considered, and a draft of the Energy Law was submitted in January to the State Council Legislative Affairs Office (we will try to get a copy [...]

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China announced on Tuesday a second batch of investment as part of the 4 trillion yuan economic stimulus package announced in November of last year. 
The fund is the second batch of investment [totaling 130 billion yuan] from the central budget following a 100 billion yuan allocated in the fourth quarter of 2008. Both were included in [...]

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When you hear someone tout China as “the world’s leading renewable energy producer,” remember to put this fact (which includes lots of environmentally unfriendly hydro by the way) in context: China’s energy growth is primarily fired by coal.  Although there appears to be a slight shift from coal in the energy project investment numbers for 2008, [...]

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Out with old, in with the new as we approach the Chinese New Year.  Although in this case “the old” wasn’t that old having held his job at the new National Energy Administration (NEA) for only several months.  Caijing reportsthat Zhao Xiaoping, currently deputy director of NEA and formerly director of the energy bureau under [...]

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