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Pressure mounts on China to tackle smog crisis
2013-01-14 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: China's closely controlled state media has today joined the chorus of calls for the government to take greater action to tackle air pollution, as record levels of smog continued to afflict Beijing and several other large cities. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Centre confirmed yesterday levels of harmful PM2.5 had reached more than 600 micrograms per square metre in many areas, far in excess of the World Health Organisation's safe guideline limit of 25 micrograms. The US Embassy's...
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