by AngelHsu | Nov 23, 2011 | Air quality, China, Data
This post originally appeared on the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Blog. Beijing’s air quality dominated international headlines when discrepancies arose last month between official monitoring data and U.S. Embassy measurements. Pictures of stifling...
by AngelHsu | Nov 1, 2011 | Air quality, China
My friend Daniel Ng alerted me to this James Fallows piece on poor Beijing air quality that has sent netizens a-flurry over the recent streak of bad air. Fallows included the typical photographic evidence of smoggy Beijing skylines as a reference. I think Fallows...
by AngelHsu | Oct 20, 2011 | Air quality, China, Policy
This post originally appeared on China Dialogue. China’s move to start measuring deadly air pollutant PM 2.5 for the first time signals a shift towards greater openness on the state of the environment, writes Angel Hsu. The news late last month from China’s...
by AngelHsu | Apr 21, 2011 | Air quality, China, Policy
This post originally appeared on The City Fix. Beijing’s recent string of blue-sky days may be a more common sight to behold in 2015. This past week, the Chinese capital released the five-year “Beijing Municipal Clean Air Action Plan,” which aims to increase the...
by AngelHsu | Mar 22, 2011 | Air quality, China, Indices
The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection has been drafting new proposals (see rough Google translation in English here) to amend former daily reporting of the Air Pollution Index (API), which has been used the last 20 years to communicate air quality and...
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