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  • With Network of River Watchers, Green Hunan Opens Second Front in China’s War on Pollution

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    China Environment Forum  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 26, 2016  //  By Jillian Du
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    “Made in China” products surround us, yet few consumers have anything more than a foggy idea of where in China their phones, computers, and other goods come from. Hunan Province in South Central China is not only the home of spicy food, but the world’s largest mines for non-ferrous metals used in many electronic devices. Nearly all the glass panels for Apple and Samsung smartphones are manufactured in Hunan as well. While this multibillion-dollar phone industry has been a boon for Hunan’s economy, it has also produced seriously polluted rivers and soil.

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  • “You Are Asking About Pollution?”: One Journalist’s Perspective on the Mid East’s Environmental Crisis

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 14, 2016  //  By Peter Schwartzstein
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    It was some point in May last year, shortly after ISIS surged into the city of Ramadi, and I was working on a story about Iraq’s fast-disappearing Mesopotamian Marshes. Keen to fact-check a few statistics with the Ministry of Water Resources and to hear the government line on the wetlands’ struggles, I dialed its Baghdad offices. After being passed from official to official like a hot potato, a young employee, Hussein, finally gave it to me straight. “No, no, we don’t have this sort of information,” he said, clearly impatient to get off the phone. “There are much more important things in Iraq right now.”

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  • Breaking Out of the Dome: Can Energy Efficiency Help Chinese Cities Conquer Air Pollution?

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    China Environment Forum  //  February 2, 2016  //  By Qinnan Zhou
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    In December 2015, Beijing issued its first-ever “red alert” for smog, its highest air pollution warning, which closed schools and restricted the number of cars on the road. Less than two weeks later, it issued its second.

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  • Will China’s New Air Law Solve its Pollution Crisis?

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    China Environment Forum  //  November 25, 2015  //  By Cai Jingjing & Joyce Tang
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    The recent news that China has been underreporting its already globe-leading coal consumption by nearly 20 percent for the last decade underscores the scale of its air pollution crisis.

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  • China’s Cap-and-Trade System a Crucial Weapon in “War on Pollution,” Says Jennifer Turner

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    China Environment Forum  //  September 30, 2015  //  By Schuyler Null & Joyce Tang

    The announcement in Washington on September 24 that President Xi Jinping is committing China to a national carbon trading system is the latest step in an important partnership between the two biggest carbon emitters in the world.

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