Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'air quality'

Parents of China lead victims fear for future

By Francois Bougon | Agence France Presse AFP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 23, 2009 HENGJIANG, China (AFP) - The landscape near Hengjiang village offers a picture-postcard view of China, with rice paddies, water buffaloes and rolling green hills. It...

China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free

By Vivian Wai-yin Kwok | FORBES MAGAZINE via forbes.comAugust 07, 2009 In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China's air, water and soil and...

'Post-Olympic era' off to a rocky start in China

By CNN - The World's Largest NetworkSeptember 17, 2008 The Olympic flame is out, the smog is back, and traffic again clogs the roads. Welcome to what commentators are calling China's "post-Olympic era," in which euphoria over the Beijing Games...

China Grabs West's Smoke-Spewing Factories

By Joseph Kahn and Mark Landler | The New York TimesDecember 21, 2007 HANDAN, China -- When residents of this northern Chinese city hang their clothes out to dry, the black fallout from nearby Handan Iron and Steel often sends...

Trucks Power China's Economy, at a Suffocating Cost

By Keith Bradsher | The New York TimesDecember 08, 2007 Every night, columns of hulking blue and red freight trucks invade China's major cities with a reverberating roar of engines and dark clouds of diesel exhaust so thick it dims...