Blog Tag - Coal Burning

So Far Beijing Has 42% Less of Polluted Days than Last Year
Submitted on May 23, 2015
No, you're not imagining things: Beijing's air has indeed been remarkably better so far this year. On Thursday, Beijing's Environmental Protection...
Too Little, Too Late: Beijing Plans Coal Ban by End of 2020
Submitted on Aug 06, 2014
Beijing plans to ban the burning of coal at all of its area power plants as well as high polluting fuels by the end of 2020. Um, thanks? If coal...
China to Close Coal-Burning Plants by 2017
Submitted on Sep 13, 2013
The Atlantic thought that September 11 was a good time to peg a story about Beijing air quality to whether or not the air at the World Trade Center'...
Beijing Plans to Cap Off Coal Burning in the City Center (But Will that Be Enough?)
Submitted on May 29, 2013
Summer is well on its way but your correspondent is still reeling from this past winter, one of the longest I can remember in my 14 years in Beijing...