China to spend $250 mln on pollution checks - Reuters

[Eugene]

China to spend $250 mln on pollution checks
Sat Mar 3, 2007 1:43AM EST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will pour 2 billion yuan ($250 million) into measuring
pollution and enforcing controls as it struggles to stem toxic emissions from its
feverish industrial growth, state media reported on Saturday.

China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) will use the money
to figure out just how much pollution factories and other producers release and
then hold them to targets for cutting emissions, the China Daily reported.

China has promised to cut major pollution emissions by 10 percent between 2006
and 2010, but last year the country failed to meet the annual target, SEPA
officials have said.

At a meeting this week, Zhou told officials that strengthened monitoring would
keep factories and officials under pressure to ensure they meet the reduction goal.

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Full article: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSPEK26622320070303

(Agence France-Presse)

China to tighten monitoring of pollution

Sat Mar 3, 1:25 AM ET

BEIJING (AFP) - China, one of the most polluted countries in the world, plans to step
up its monitoring of harmful emissions in an effort to avoid missing pollution-reduction
goals for a second year, state media reported on Saturday.

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Zhou has blamed provincial and local-level governments bent on achieving economic
growth at all costs for the failed targets. The central government has also said some
provinces may have falsified emissions data to stay in compliance with the goals.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070303/sc_afp/chinaenvironmentpollution_070303062544

[sam sarrha]

1. the major cause of Death in China is Environmental Polution.. it's Gonna do NOTHING