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Sudden Environmental Incidents Required to be Disclosed Same Day and Other Recent China Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Climate News
Sudden environmental incidents required to be disclosed same day （Google translate)
Listed corporations shall fulfill more explicit environmental protection responsibilities and environmental information disclosure obligations. Sudden and unexpected environmental incidents must be reported within 1 day of the occurrence. On September 14, 2010, the Ministry of Environmental Protection released the draft “Guidance on environmental information disclosure of listed corporations” Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Recent China Environmental Law and Public Participation News
Environmental tax likely to come out during the 12th five-year plan （Google translate）
According to reporters, China’s research on environmental tax has made significant progress. The Ministry of Finance, State Taxation Administration, and Ministry of Environment are requesting that the State Council perform environmental tax pilots, and an environmental tax is likely to come out by 2013. (Source: People’s Daily Online)
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Op-ed: Mask-wearing protest in Foshan highlights Chinese civic spirit (Google translation)
An editorial in the Lu Zhong Morning News praises a peaceful protest march held by residents of Foshan in Guangdong Province. 400 residents wore hospital masks and marched silently in the streets in order to attract attention regarding their environmental concern about the construction of new incineration plants in the area. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
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Lead-poisoned children of Qingyuan promised testing and medical treatment (Google translation)
Officials announced to concerned residents that all children in Qingyuan would be given access to blood testing and prompt treatment to address the growing problem of lead poisoning. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(1)
Draft Tort Law now available for public comment
The 11th meeting of the 11th National People’s Congress Standing Committee has finished the third review of the draft Tort Law. The full text of the draft law has been put on the official website of NPC for public comment. Members of the public are welcome to submit their comments by logging on to www.npc.gov.cn or by sending the comments in hardcopy to the following address:
Law Office of National People’s Congress Standing Committee, No. 23 Xijiao minxiang, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100805.
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Wuhan expands public participation towards environmental awareness (Google translation) Since 2007, Wuhan has taken significant steps to bolster public participation in environmental protection, reports the Changjiang Daily. In addition to increasing its own monitoring efforts, especially of local sewage plants, the Wuhan Environmental Protection Bureau also created a comprehensive website allowing citizens to access pollution monitoring information. The construction of the city’s Metro Line 2 also solicited public opinions, eventually making major modifications to the original plan because of citizen concerns. With the introduction of the “Yangtze River Daily” newsletter, the city has taken another step towards implementing a robust … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
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Enshi city begins conducting environmental environmental supervisor system trials (Google translation)
Monday marked the start of the first week for Enshi city – located in Hubei Province – and its new enterprise environmental supervisor system. Two companies, one cement and one sewage treatment company, were selected for the pilot testing of the policy. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
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Guangzhou City’s Procuratorate provides public guidance for the four main difficulties of public interest litigation (Google translation)
The Legal Daily examines how recent cases of environmental public interest litigation taken up by the Guangzhou Procuratorate have provided crucial insight to legal experts on tackling the four major problems of public interest litigation in China: taking on cases, collecting evidence, appraisal, and winning the lawsuit. (Source: Legal Daily)
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A Lotus Growing out of the Heart – A Visit to the Huai River Guardians
Two weeks after escaping from the scalding heat of Beijing, I sat down once again at a computer and began to think about my trip in July to Henan to see what the Huai River Guardians were doing. In order to investigate and research environmental information transparency, Lindsay Beck, an intern from the University of Toronto, and I met with Bai Linxi and Huo Daishan, the person in charge of Huai River Guardians. As the second-place winners of the 2009 Alashan SEE Ecological Award, what is it that the Huai River Guardians do? With this question in mind, on July … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
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Lead-stricken town mayor’s apology fails to make up for lack of information disclosure (Google translation)
After Chinese media revealed on August 6 that hundreds of children in the Fengxiang area of Shaanxi Province had dangerous levels of lead in their blood, the mayor of Baoji City, a town in the affected area, did not make any public apologies or announcements until 12 days later. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(2)
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