Breathing in Beijing: An Emergency Anti-Smog Plan, Rainmaking, and New Words for Pollution
Submitted by TreeHugger on Thursday, 31 July 2008No Comment
An Environmental Protection Bureau van checks air quality near the Water Cube
After over a week of mixed pollution, Beijing today outlined emergency measures for fighting smog during the Olympics, potentially expanding what is already the world’s grandest pollution experiment. Under “extremely unfavorable weather conditions,” like hot, humid air without the winds needed to disperse pollution, the government may enact further restrictions on factories and cars in Beijing and the nearby city of Tianjin as well as…
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