China's Pollution Problem

China, climate change

China sets new emissions goals after Trump rejects climate change

China led several countries in announcing new climate plans on Wednesday and offered a veiled rebuke of the U.S. president's anti-climate rhetoric a day earlier at the U.N. General Assembly. Gabe Singer reports.

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China commits to cutting up to 10% of its climate pollution, short of the goal other countries sought of it

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China makes landmark pledge to cut its climate emissions

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China doubles down on climate, wind and solar pledges — a day after Trump called them a 'scam'

China pledged Wednesday to cut its world-leading levels of climate pollution by up to 10 percent during the next decade — one day after U.S. President Donald Trump urged global leaders to abandon the...

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China for First Time Promises to Reduce Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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China, for First Time, Vows to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Opinion: Pollution is China’s secret weapon — it’s time we fight back

While our industries comply with arduous regulations, they must compete with a never-ending array of cheap, high-pollution imports from China produced using a different set of rules.

How a noisy, polluted city of 30 million cleaned up its act

In the heart of Shanghai there’s none of the noise, pollution and general intensity you’d expect in a city this size.

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Air pollution could be worsening children’s vision, study says

It’s well established that air pollution causes a wide variety of harms to the human body, raising the risk of heart disease, respiratory diseases and strokes. But new research has highlighted yet another damaging impact: to our vision.

The Cornell Daily Sun

Facing Internal and External Pressures, China Looks to Improve Pollution Issues

On one day in late December, the view from an airplane window at the Beijing airport was clouded by air so thick with pollution it was white. Walking out of the airport was like walking into a crowd of smokers, intensified by the large numbers of people ...

Independent Record

China’s air pollution affecting U.S.

MOUNT TAMALPAIS STATE PARK, Calif. -- On a mountaintop overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Steven Cliff collects evidence of an industrial revolution taking place thousands of miles away. The tiny, airborne particles Cliff gathers at an air monitoring station ...

Time

Beijing Chokes on Record Pollution, and Even the Government Admits There’s a Problem

This weekend, my family barricaded itself behind closed doors, with only the briefest of toilet breaks for our dog. As the air pollution in Beijing reached record highs, the view from our 16th-floor downtown apartment dwindled to something more akin to a ...

The Cornell Daily Sun

Professor Recommends Use of Economic Principles to Tackle Chinese Pollution, Traffic Congestion

Innovators seeking to reduce China’s air pollution and traffic congestion must address these problems with economic principles in mind, according to Prof. Shanjun Li, applied economics and management. “Air pollution and traffic congestion really have ...

Reuters

New film on China's pollution sparks debate, seen as milestone

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Could "Under the Dome", Chinese journalist Chai Jing's new documentary about pollution, become China's "Silent Spring", the 1962 book that spurred the development of the U.S. environmental movement? Since it was released online on ...

Seeking Alpha

Steel Prices Could Surge In 2017 As China Tackles Pollution

We'll remember 2016 as the year in which steel prices bottomed out, thanks to higher-than-expected demand in China. China, once again, increased infrastructure and property construction spending. As a result, steel prices rose. China's primary growth ...