China Environmental Law
"We will try to avoid repeating the same shopworn statistics, e.g. '20 of the world’s top 30 most-polluted cities,' that are often trotted out when talking about Chinese environmental matters. ... We’ll try to stick to the facts and the law to the extent they can be determined (more on this point later), keying off of current news items and emerging storylines."
Author: Charlie McElwee is counsel at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Shanghai, China.
Blawg Related Categories: Energy Law • Environmental Law • International • Asia • China
Recent Posts from China Environmental Law
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Doing It Right
This is how it is supposed to work. The developer (a branch of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation) of the proposed Maoming paraxylene (PX) project to be built within the Maoming Oil Refinery Plant has apparently…
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China Water Quality Data Online
As China Daily is reporting, you can now get “realtime” (it’s updated every four hours) information about the quality of water in some of China’s major rivers and lakes online. The results show pH level…
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The Good, The Bad, The Bizarre
The Good During the first six months of 2009, Beijing experienced its best air in a decade. Although just how good Beijing’s air is in an absolute sense remains in dispute (for all things Beijing…
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China’s Tiger Farms
On the climate front, be sure to read Li Gao’s critique of ACES and Paul Krugman’s defense of “border adjustments” to curb greenhouse gas emissions (I like to think of it as “cap & trade…
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China Says: ACES Not Welcome Here
Although it was initially reported that China “welcomed” the passage by the US House of Representatives of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), it has quickly pulled up the “Welcome” mat. A Xinhua…
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Green Stimulus Spending Returns to Earth
I love it when China refuses to play along with its most sycophantic flatterers. You may recall that we discussed HSBC’s bizarre contention that 37.8% (or US$221.3 billion) of China’s stimulus package is devoted to…
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Going Through the Motions
I just stumbled upon a China Daily opinion piece, “No Green Signal,” from June 16 that deals with the game that is played by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and developers of hydroelectric projects.…
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The State of China’s Environment: 2008
The Ministry of Environmental Protection released the English summary of its “State of the Environment” report earlier this month. We have read it so you won’t have to. Let’s first look at the ten achievements…
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Presentation Tuesday
I made a presentation today at a seminar sponsored by a large, international company which offers environmental consulting services in China. The topic was “Sustainable Redevelopment of Contaminated Land.” There was a lively audience…
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Hydro Developers to MEP: “What is done cannot be undone”
There was a little more information in a China.org.cn story today about the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s construction ban on two large hydroelectric projects on the Jinsha River. Both projects started construction in 2007 and…