China Offers Plan to Clean Up Its Polluted Lakes
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The government has announced new regulations that will limit fish farms and require better treatment of wastewater, among other measures.
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By You Nuo  The central government of China should set up a new and powerful commission to help protect the nation's environment.
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1st Ld: As water rises in Three Gorges reservoir, so does garbage  Three Gorges Dam, Hubei Province, Sept.
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China promised to cooperate in tackling its food safety problems but urged a quick resolution.
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By SCOTT McDONALD  BEIJING - China's environmental watchdog admitted Monday the country had failed to reach any of its pollution control goals for 2006 and had fallen further behind as the economy picked up speed.
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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 Chinese government will take concrete measures in energy saving and pollution control and try to meet the targets set in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan"  China will take its responsibilities seriously and contribute to the global cause of environmental protection, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday. via People's Daily Online
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China has fired or otherwise punished five officials for failing to prevent pollution blamed for a massive algae bloom in one of the country's biggest lakes, a newspaper reported Monday.
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China promised Monday to better control emissions of greenhouse gases, unveiling a national program to combat global warming, but rejected mandatory caps on emissions as unfair to countries still trying to catch up with the developed West.
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China's plan to cut coal use has brought electricity to nomads and hopes for cleaner air by 2020.
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By Bulley, Henry N N Merchant, James W; Marx, David B; Holz, John C; Holz, Aris A  ABSTRACT: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is charged with establishing standards and criteria for assessing lake water quality.
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A senior Chinese official tells the BBC the country's environmental problems have reached crisis levels.
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Underground water reserves in around 9 out of every 10 Chinese cities are polluted or over-exploited, and could take hundreds of years to recover, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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China&#39;s first plan for climate change  will seek to fortify the country against damage from global  warming but also against international pressure to cut  greenhouse gas pollution that Beijing calls the cost of growth.
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Wu Lihong warned for years that pollution was strangling his beloved Lake Tai.
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Beijing to turn coal gas plant into industrial relics park    BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Beijing plans to build a coal gas plant, a major polluter of the national capital, into an industrial relics park in an effort to honor its "Green Olympics" commitment.
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Polluters along two of China's main rivers have defied a decade-old clean-up effort, leaving much of the water unfit to touch, let alone drink, and a risk to a sixth of the population, state media said on Monday.