Climate Desk: Again.
No matter what desperate steps the Chinese government takes--banning coal burning plants within the city limits, shuttering more than 300 factories, wiping out old vehicles and boilers, forcing heavy trucking to go nocturnal--this just keeps happening: Beijing`s smog has yet again soared off the charts.
On Thursday local time, Beijing measured "beyond index" levels of the dangerous airborne particulate matter known as PM2.5--considered hazardous to human health because the tiny particles...