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The health impact from coal power plants in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei

The health impact from coal power plants in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei

Publication | 2013-06-18 at 3:00

Beijing and the Jingjinji region have a major air pollution problem that reached emergency proportions in winter 2012-2013. One of the key contributors to the problem is the very large amount of coal burning in the region, and power generation is...

Pollution from coal power plants in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region causes nearly 10,000 premature deaths

Pollution from coal power plants in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region causes nearly 10...

Press release | 2013-06-17 at 23:00

A research project co-authored by Greenpeace on the health impacts of coal power plants shows that PM2.5 pollution from the 196 coal-fired power plants in the capital region of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei caused 9,900 premature deaths and nearly 70,000...

Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2013-06-14

Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook  and  Twitter . China's rich provinces outsource emissions to less developed areas . (The...

US-China agreement on climate change or HFO for Dummies

US-China agreement on climate change or HFO for Dummies

Blog entry by Paula Tejon Carbajal | 2013-06-13

This was the news that woke me up last Sunday:  'United States and China agree to work together on phase down of HFCs.' Good! Finally some political action to reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions! Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are a...

Beijing air: a heavy metal cocktail

Beijing air: a heavy metal cocktail

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2013-06-12

The following is an excerpt from our report: Exposing the Heavy Metal Concentration of PM2.5 in Beijing. From December 3, 2012 to January 18, 2013, Beijing experienced the most severe episode of air pollution since PM2.5...

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