China Environmental Law April 01,2009 to April 30,2009

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Waxman-Markey and China: First...

House Energy and Commerce Chair Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chair Ed Markey (D-MA) released their energy and climate bill yesterday.? The bill is 648 pages lo...

Rain Check

. . . except it’s nice and sunny in Shanghai. ?I’m booked solid today, so I will have to leave you hanging. ?You should be reading the Waxman-Markey bill anyway, so enjoy the reprieve. ...

Shanghai Public Disclosure Sta...

As you may recall China recently promulgated new “public disclosure” regulations (see here).? The South China Morning Post ran an article yesterday (regrettably a subscription is required t...

Qing Ming Festival

Today is the Qing Ming holiday in China. Literally translated as Clear Brightness Festival, it is more descriptively known as Tomb Sweeping Day, when one honors one’s ancestors often by visit...

China's Copenhagen Commitments...

I have a guest post at Climate Progress, China’s Copenhagen Commitments: A Workable Solution.? Please go check it out.? A commentator raises an issue about China’s per capita carbon emissions,...

The China WEEE Post

Hooray, the much anticipated China WEEE post!? I hate to disappoint, but if you’ve read China’s WEEE regulation you have discovered there is not much there there.? This took five years to deve...

Another Busy Thursday

I don’t know what it is about Thursday lately, but it seems to be the busiest day of the week. ?I’ll try to be back tomorrow. ?At the very least, I’ll tell you what I am going to be doing on ...

Take the Window Seat

Thinking about my trip tomorrow to the Minhang campus of Shanghai Jiaotong University brought back memories of riding the campus bus that runs between the University’s old, city campus (in Xuj...

JUCCCE Fundraising Mixer: Apri...

Come join the fun: JUCCCE Fundraising Mixer @ M1NT Tuesday, April 28th 5pm Presentation 6pm Cocktail Mixer RMB 300 (includes 2 drinks + canapes) *Thanks to Dell China* *Complimentary p...

President's Prize

Child #2 and I boarded the bus at 7:45AM Saturday morning for the trip to the University’s Minhang Campus.? We arrived in time for a walk through the larch forest near the lake where we disturb...

State Council to Local Governm...

The State Council on Monday demanded?that local governments buy “more energy-efficient products.”? Local governments have apparently been slacking in their obligations to go green (what else ...

Kunming's Arsenic Lake Contami...

We wrote about the arsenic pollution in Kunming’s Yangzonghai Lake last September.? The source of the arsenic was the Yunnan Chengjiang Jinye Corporation, a particularly recalcitrant polluter.?...

China's Environmental Complian...

China Daily reported yesterday that random inspections by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) in February revealed the following: about 15.5% of projects started construction witho...

US-China Clean Energy Forum

We at CELB have been remiss in not mentioning an important player in the US-China clean energy space.? The US-China Clean Energy Forum?has been up and running for some time and has sponsored exc...

Fast & Loose

A number of people have referenced the HSBC Climate Change Global Research report, “A Climate for Recovery: The colour of stimulus goes green“, but few people appear to have actually looked at...

Local Blogger Makes Good

Going through my Twitter backlog and just discovered that it’s now official, a pillar of the China green blogsphere, Julian Wong at the Green Leap Forward, is heading to DC to become a Senior P...

Happy Earth Day (I think)!

Is today Earth Day?? I’m guessing it is because the CNN logo has turned green, but my Google Calendar says its Administrative Professionals’ Day.? Everyday is Earth Day here at CELB (and Admi...

Playing With Fire

There have been a number of reports recently about how China is taking the lead in the global green economy.? When directed at a US audience, these reports are often designed to spur more action...

US Climate Envoy Stern talks C...

The US State Department’s climate envoy Todd Stern told reporters on Wednesday that China must take “significant, robust action that’s quantifiable, that it commits to that” as part of a new...

Kunming's Arsenic Lake Contami...

You may recall that last week we said we had a reporter stationed outside the Chengjiang County courthouse ‘round the clock waiting to bring you news of the verdict in the criminal trial of Yu...

Blacklist Blacked Out by Black...

This one probably falls more into the “how not to hold a press conference” category, but it does have an environmental angle so will cover it here. (h/t and thanks to environmental attorney S...

China's Green Stimulus: Did so...

Yesterday’s China Daily took a candid look at how China’s stimulus funds are being spent and their potential impact on the environment.? As usual, it appears the guys in the provinces didn’t ...

China's Noise Pollution Law

It occurred to me as I hear more and more complaints about the noise associated with Shanghai’s Expo 2010 construction and renovation boomlet that China has a Noise Law.? In fact its usually li...

China's Path to Low Carbon Dev...

Yet another group has concluded that it is possible for China to transition to low carbon development model in a manner that “offers the green opportunity for Chinese economy to recover and boo...