China Environmental Law

The Ministry of Environmental Protection released the English summary of its “State of the Environment” report earlier this month.  We have read it so you won’t have to.
Let’s first look at the ten achievements identified for 2008.  Where interesting facts and figures were given, we have noted them.

First, the CPC Central Committee and the State [...]

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There have been plans for at least the last seven years to build a series of 13 dams on the middle and lower sections of the scenic Nu River in Yunnan Province.  This is no small project.  China Huadian, a state-owned power company, and developer of the project reports that “once completed the 13 dams [...]

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I’m booked pretty solid today, but fortunately Christina Larson has just puplished a new article in her series on Chinese environmentalists.  You can find it at the wonderful Yale Environment 360 site. Here’s the teaser:
Geologist Yong Yang has serious concerns about plans for a massive Yangtze River diversion project. When he went public with them, he found [...]

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