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China's new environment law submitted to parliament
2014-04-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Amendments to China's 1989 environmental protection law that will mean stiffer punishments for polluters have been submitted to the country's parliament for deliberation, official news agency Xinhua reported late on Monday. The National People's Congress (NPC), China's legislature, will consider the amendments during its latest bimonthly session, which runs until Thursday this week, Xinhua said. The first change to the legislation in 25 years will give legal backing to Beijing's newly declared...
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United Kingdom: Cumbrian nuclear dump site was mistake, admits Environment Agency
2014-04-20 16:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britain's nuclear dump is virtually certain to be eroded by rising sea levels and to contaminate the Cumbrian coast with large amounts of radioactive waste, according to an internal document released by the Environment Agency (EA). The document suggests that in retrospect it was a mistake to site the Drigg Low-Level Waste Repository (LLWR) on the Cumbrian coast because of its vulnerability to flooding. "It is doubtful whether the location of the LLWR site would be chosen for a new facility for...
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United MileagePlus Customers Can Use Their Miles To Help the Environment
2014-04-15 21:15:17| Airlines - Topix.net
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Impact of urbanisation on built environment staggering, says report
2014-04-15 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Big business needs to ramp-up its board-level understanding of built environment issues, such as dealing with problems related to carbon targets, a new report has warned. The University College London-commissioned report The Built Environment: Profit Warning looks at how the world and businesses will need to adapt to an increasing population, which is projected to reach 10 billion by 2050, whilst dealing with other challenges, such as climate change, energy security and shifts in demographics....
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China set to elevate environment over development in new law
2014-04-15 03:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Smog-hit China is set to pass a new law that would give Beijing more powers to shut polluting factories and punish officials, and even place protected regions off-limits to industrial development, scholars with knowledge of the situation said. Long-awaited amendments to China's 1989 Environmental Protection Law are expected to be finalised later this year, giving the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) greater authority to take on polluters. While some details of the fourth draft are...
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