China to Clean Up Polluters Along Songhua River After Repeated Chemical Spills
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China to clean up polluters along Songhua River after repeated chemical spills    BEIJING, Sept.
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By Sun Xiaohua  China will launch its first nationwide investigation into the sources of environmental pollution beginning in 2008, according to the top environmental official.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 11 September: China's State Council, or Cabinet, has authorized the Three Gorges power plant to raise the water level of the reservoir from the current 135 metres to 156 metres.
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Boats have become a necessary means of transport in the flooded streets of Quxian, north-east of Sichuan province. Picture:Reuters.
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Jun. 6--WASHINGTON -- Recommendations in a national study on federal water pollution cleanup projects already are part of planned PCB dredging of the Hudson River at Fort Edward, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Chinaâs State Environmental Protection Administration said on Tuesday that water quality is barely improving in the main body of water behind the Three Gorges Dam.
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Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday.
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A stretch of China's Yellow River runs red for the second time in a month because of pollution, media says.
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China orders construction work to stop on 26  power projects including two at the Three Gorges Dam, saying they breach environmental laws.
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Text of report by Shi Jiangtao in Beijing headlined: "Website names and shames polluters" by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 15 September  The mainland's first web-based database on water pollution to be run by a non-governmental organization was unveiled yesterday.
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The pollution control board in India's north-eastern state of Assam tells refineries to clean up their act.
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By Xin Dingding  Experts have urged the government to strengthen efforts to deal with water pollution in the wake of the Wuxi water crisis.  The Wuxi government has stressed that the incident was "an irresistible natural disaster".
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Chinese authorities are battling to clean up after one of the worst oil spills in the region's waters.
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The murky green Dasha River has been dirty for decades, polluted by coal mines and steel mills that make it fit only for watering livestock and crops downstream.
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Canada to ban and restrict toxic chemicals    OTTAWA, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Canada will seek to clean up the environment by banning and restricting dangerous chemicals in a four- year chemicals management program, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday.
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XIAMEN: This port city in East China's Fujian Province has decided to put a highly polluting chemical project on hold, authorities said yesterday.
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A southern Chinese province was rushing to shore up dams eroded by weeks of heavy rains and high waters that already have killed at least 76 people, state media reported Wednesday.