A new study conducted by Franklin Associates has confirmed that IFCO reusable plastic containers (RPCs) are the sustainable choice for fresh produce packaging. The updated report, Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Reusable Plastic ...
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Amid spiking energy demand and mounting environmental challenges, China is striving to build a greener energy system, with more investment flowing to the clean energy sector in the coming years. China's total energy consumption will be ...
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At the Peking University SOE Forum held in Beijing on Wednesday, China’s energy experts and scholars pointed out that the development of natural gas as an energy alternative to curb air pollution is crucial to China’s future ...
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New diesel technology will be part of a $23.6m zero-emission transportation test program in California for emerging commercial vehicle technologies designed to reduce greenhouse gases, smog, and petroleum usage in ports and rail yards along ...
The first quality standards for pollution filter masks will take effect on March 1 in a bid to regulate the rapidly growing domestic market. The Group Standard on Protective Masks against PM 2.5 was released on Jan 18, with the goal to ...
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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved San Diego Gas & Electric's (SDG&E) Electric Vehicle Grid-Integration pilot project, signaling the "green light" for the company to own and install thousands of electric vehicle (EV) ...
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China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has publicly criticized a northwestern city on Wednesday for its slack response to recent smog. The ministry's pollution inspection team found that Xi'an municipal government had been very slow ...
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In China's financial hub Shanghai, kitchen stoves now use a new energy source: shale gas, a clean energy that travels more than 1,600 kilometers to the city's homes via a series of pipelines. China has recently made breakthroughs in shale ...
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In the Chinese government's ongoing fight to try to clean up this country's air, a new focus is being being put on small-scale companies in an effort to get them onboard with reducing emissions. Over the past few years, the central ...
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n years past, a smog-shrouded Beijing was accepted as a fact of life in the big city. But increasingly, people are taking notice. Companies now are focusing on using the internet, smart devices and big data to help the Chinese make ...
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Even though Beijing has lifted the red alert for severe pollution, the capital city will remain in haze for a few more days. The Beijing municipal heavy pollution emergency response headquarters issued a blue alert for heavy pollution in ...
A fugitive who caught pneumonia because of Beijing's heavy smog recently gave himself up to the police in his hometown in Hunan Province. The fugitive, surnamed Long, is the main suspect of a burglary in Qidong County of Hunan Province. ...
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China's smog has made masks and air purifiers the hottest of commodities. Now, a new product is getting all the attention: bottled air. BBC screenshots of a woman breathing air from a can went viral on the Internet this week, with the ...
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A red alert for air pollution is going to take effect starting from this Saturday morning in Beijing. This is the second time this month that the highest level warning has issued for the Chinese capital. Emergency measures include an ...
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Scientists from east China's Zhejiang University have for the first time identified the relationship between airway diseases and environmental particulate matter (PM). Scientists discovered that autophagy, a normal physiological process ...
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