(January 11, 2007) China’s environmental protection agency says it won’t approve new power plant projects by four major utilities until the companies bring current projects into compliance with safeguards.

(January 11, 2007) The State Environmental Protection Administration received 600,000 complaints regarding environmental issues last year, an increase of 30 percent over the year before, said the administration’s deputy director Pan Yue.

(January 7, 2007) A former state environmental chief who was forced to resign over a major chemical spill that caused widespread pollution has been appointed deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission.

(December 26, 2006) China’s top environmental official lambasted grassroots authorities here Tuesday, saying that serious local protectionism has fostered rampant environmental violations.

(December 20, 2006) Environmental destruction has reached serious proportions in China, where press freedom remains a pipe dream. Yet, the government is trying to use the media to throw light on this growing problem — one that has the potential to undermine economic development.

(December 2, 2006) China faces an environmental crisis that threatens to wipe out much of the gains of three decades of economic growth, one of China’s most outspoken environment officials said in comments published on Saturday.

(November 24, 2006) China will invest 15 billion yuan (1.875 billion U.S. dollars) in the next five years to modernize the Yangtze River waterway, the world’s third longest river with a length of over 6300 km, Li Shenglin, minister of Communications said in Nanjing on Tuesday.

(November 24, 2006) Chief of the provincial environment protection bureau in northeastern China’s Jilin Province was severely punished by the State Council for his responsibility in the contamination of the Songhua River, Chinese media reported today.

(November 24, 2006) Environmental law enforcement has hit obstacles in parts of China and certain local government officials have been half-hearted in dealing with pollution, said a Chinese environmental official on Tuesday.

(November 22, 2006) The relentless effort to increase the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) led to an increase in the discharge of major pollutants in the first half of this year, according to the country’s leading environmental watchdog.

(November 21, 2006) The mainland’s environmental problems are grave and local governments are bent on economic growth at the expense of the country’s ecology, according to the majority of respondents to a nationwide online survey.

(November 13, 2006) The degradation of China’s environment was reaching a critical point where health and social stability are under threat, the country’s top government official on the environment said today.