China Environmental Law

We aren’t just a dry scholary rag focused solely on emissions and discharges. We can see the humor as well as the next guy in some of the things that go on in the environmental policy arena. Thus we are thrilled to share with you Chinese environmental humor (or at least an environmental cartoon) when [...]

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This one probably falls more into the “how not to hold a press conference” category, but it does have an environmental angle so will cover it here. (h/t and thanks to environmental attorney Sabrina Wang and, seperately, The Wu Way 無為 for bringing this story to my attention).
Heilongjiang Province’s Environmental Bureau (EPB) held a meeting with specifically [...]

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China Daily reported yesterday that random inspections by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) in February revealed the following:

about 15.5% of projects started construction without approval (I assume this means that they either did not conduct an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) or their EIA was not approved);
about 9.6 %of enterprises closed for environmental reasons resumed [...]

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The Ministry of Environmental Protection has issued a Notice (Chinese only version here; accompanying Q&A here) which sets forth a regulatory opinion on the imposition of administrative punishment in environmental cases.
The Opinion reiterates some basic points, includes some significant new interpretations, and generally provides a welcome clarification of many of the issues surrounding the imposition [...]

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The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and Sinopec proposed in 2005 to build a petrochemical refinery in Guangzhou.1  The facility will process “15 million tones of oil a year and produce 800,000 tonnes of ethylene.” 2  The Nansha District, an island at the mouth of the Pearl River, was selected as the location for the facility.  The [...]

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Planning is beginning for the development of the new 12th Five Year Environmental Protection Plan.  The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has published a notice (Chinese only) soliciting participation in research projects on various topics that will make up the components of that plan. 
There are 25 topics in all and they provide some insight into what issues [...]

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Would you like a Marxist critique of capitalism’s response to global warming?  No, ok skip today’s post and come back tomorrow.  Yes, read on, although I will only give you the smallest snippets of a 16 page article entitled A Failed System: The World Crisis of Capitalist Globalization and its Impact on China  which was [...]

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