CAN suggests additional monitoring stations would provide comprehensive pollution picture
Clean Air Network (CAN) welcomes the Environmental Protection Department’s (EPD) announcement today about the long-awaited release of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) figures. Starting today, the EPD will begin providing real-time updates of PM2.5 concentrations to the public on the hour. However, the pollu …
China Daily
Li Wenfang and Wang Zhenghua
Environmental authorities of Guangdong province plan to start releasing PM2.5 readings on Thursday, an early-bird approach to meeting the stricter national air quality requirements.
The State Council announced last week that stricter standards would be adopted in cities, including readings for ozone and concentrations of PM2.5 – particulate matter sm …
PM2.5 will be monitored and the data published twice a day on Twitter via @CANalert and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/cleanairnetwork.
Disclaimer: the PM2.5 data we release is measured by a portable PM2.5 monitor (TSI SidePak AM510) which is widely used by university researchers. The location is outside of our CAN office (102-106 Queen’s Road West, Sheung Wan) at ~5m above grou …
SCMP
Shi Jiangtao in Beijing
The top environmental watchdog has set out a timetable for monitoring smog-related pollutants across the mainland amid mounting public pressure and setbacks in curbing pollution and energy waste this year.
The timetable unveiled by Environment Minister Zhou Shengxian on Wednesday is widely seen as a step in the right direction, but it fails to address mounting deman …
SCMP
Ng Kang-chung
Hong Kong emerged as the worst offender for emissions of the toxic pollutant nitrogen dioxide among major cities in the Pearl River Delta region, according to the latest report on regional air quality.
Jointly presented by the environmental protection authorities of Guangdong and Hong Kong, the report showed the region’s air quality got slightly worse in the first half of the …