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January 15, 2013

Beijing is more open about smog

  • In an unusual public announcement, Beijing authorities advised people to ‘take measures to protect their health' from off-the-charts pollution.

    • BEIJING (AP) — One of Beijing's worst rounds of air pollution kept schoolchildren indoors and sent coughing residents to hospitals Monday, but this time something was different about the murky haze: the government's transparency in talking about it.

    While welcomed by residents and environmentalists, Beijing's new openness about smog also put more pressure on the government to address underlying causes, including a lag in efforts to expand Western-style emissions limits to all of the vehicles in Beijing's notoriously thick traffic.


     
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