Bloomberg: For years, responsibility for curtailing Chinas massive ecological degradation fell to the relatively weak Ministry of Environment, which lacks staff resources and has nothing close to the political clout of the National Development and Reform Commission that manages the countrys economy. Many of the ministrys well-intentioned green initiatives have been announced, only to be ignored or unenforced. Meanwhile Beijings skies grew ever-grayer.
Chinas influential State Council, chaired by Premier...