The problem of smog is declining faster in Beijing than elsewhere in China, where air pollution remains at hazardous levels, reports Greenpeace. Chinese authorities, meanwhile, are making a “big deal” of going after small-time or individual polluters rather than industrial polluters. Why the smoke screen?
“Eco-warrior” Wu Lihong charged for blackmail
(June 6, 2007) Yixing city prosecutors in east China’s Jiangsu Province have charged Wu Lihong, who was once nominated as one of China’s top ten environmentalists, with blackmail, sources with the local people’s procuratorate said Wednesday.


