SCMP Editorial Authorities should be tackling roadside air pollution as a matter of urgency. They claim that this is the case: the Environmental Bureau and Environmental Protection Department said in their last annual progress report that high public expectations meant this was a top priority. An ineffective scheme to get old, polluting vehicles off the streets...
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Here is the gist of today’s SCMP article about the Government’s failed subsidy program to accelerate replacement of pre-Euro IV commercial vehicles. In April 2007, the Government launched a HK$3.2 billion voluntary replacement scheme to encourage owners of the dirtiest commercial diesel vehicles (buses and trucks registered before 1995) to replace them as soon as...
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SCMP Austin Chiu Cash incentives for getting polluting vehicles off the roads branded a failure A subsidy aimed at encouraging owners of old, polluting diesel trucks and vans to replace them early is failing because most of the people taking the grant would be buying a new vehicle anyway as theirs are worn out, owners and academics...
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The New York Times TODD WOODY and CLIFFORD KRAUSS SAN FRANCISCO — If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first. The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some...
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Washington, Feb 13 : Exposure to air pollution accelerates the thickening of artery walls that leads to cardiovascular disease, say researchers. The study, by boffins at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), in collaboration with international partners in Spain and Switzerland and colleagues in California, has been published in...
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LEADING RESTAURANTS TO ASSIST CLEAN AIR NETWORK IN GATHERING SIGNATURES FOR THE PETITION FOR CLEAN AIR Zuma and Roka will kick off CAN’s petition sign-up campaign at Hong Kong’s leading restaurants on 16 February. For two weeks, staff will don black t-shirts, emblazoned with CAN’s campaign slogan, ”Clean up the air one signature at a time,” at lunch hour, presenting patrons...
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Study reveals direct link between air pollution (PM2.5) and atherosclerosis (artery thickening) for the first time.
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