China beginning to Tackle Environmental Issues July 21, 2008
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It has taken a long time but the message is getting through.
Many environmental laws are on the books in China but the ability to enforce them has been lacking.
In recent years, even as the central government has become more concerned about controlling pollution, China’s environmental woes have intensified. Although Beijing vowed in 2002 to reduce sulfur emissions by 10 percent in three years, those emissions rose nearly 30 percent. (In 2006, the chair of China’s environmental committee complained that some provincial governments upheld less than a third of Beijing’s green laws.) Today thousands of unlicensed mines across China leach mercury into the soil.
