China Environmental Law

The Panyu waste incineration plant protest in Guangzhou last week was important for a number of reasons, but one of the most thoughtful takes on the event comes from an unlikely source, the Communist Party of China’s Guangdong Party School.
In an article entitled, “Confronting pollution: ‘expel it’ or ‘manage it’”? (I’d welcome a better translation, [...]

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I am not going to write anything today because you must read this article from Caijing Magazine: Heavy Metal Warfare.  It covers the smelting industry along the Xiang river in Hunan province 1 the , and in the process provides a telling picture of the challenges faced by Chinese environmental regulators across the vast rural [...]

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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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As you may recall China recently promulgated new “public disclosure” regulations (see here).  The South China Morning Post ran an article yesterday (regrettably a subscription is required to access SCMP content), that reviewed the numbers for Shanghai on the processing of requests for information made by the public in 2008.  These are requests for public [...]

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