I’m sure that almost every country has someone like John Stossel – a self-righteous media personality who depicts the world in black and white, and whose appeal, to a section of the population, lies precisely in his over-simplified take on very complex matters. I’m usually able to keep such media at bay, but the title [...]
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If China Has a John Stossel, Be Afraid, Very Afraid
Posted in Featured Post, General Content, tagged china and efficiency, john stossel china, stossel environment on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
China’s Projected Renewable Electricity Quota Regime and its Role in Wind-Generation
Posted in General Content on April 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This post is from Nat Green, a second year law student at Vermont Law School and a joint research project student for 2011-2012 with VLS’ U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law. On February 27, 2012, China’s National Development and Reform Commission announced a new plan to develop a national quota regime intended to encourage renewable energy development. This [...]
Good Intentions and Snapping Turtles
Posted in Featured Post, General Content on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It was a beautiful spring day in Beijing – a real blue-sky day. I went for a long bike ride, a portion of which followed the Nanhucheng “River,” which runs parallel to the South Second Ring Road. The Nanhucheng is a mostly manufactured waterway. Its banks are solid concrete and there are at least two [...]
International headlines: China & the environment: 26 March – 2 April 2012
Posted in China Environmental News Roundup, General Content on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
2 April 2012 China To Reduce Dioxin Pollution From Pulp And Paper Industry With GEF Grant Asian Scientist Magazine China proposes environment protection projects with Japan in E. China Sea Mainichi Daily News 1 April 2012 Conoco pays Chinese fishermen for oil spill-report Reuters Cnooc, ConocoPhillips Agree On CNY345 Million Compensation For Chinese Fishermen Fox Business 30 March 2012 Sri Lankan conservationists battle national park [...]
International headlines: China & the environment: 18-25 March 2012
Posted in China Environmental News Roundup, General Content on March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
25 March 2012 Mike Daisey and Empathy Forbes 23 March 2012 China National Nuclear in Talks With Areva to Buy Uranium Stakes Bloomberg 22 March 2012 China’s foreign policy is playing catch-up with its new status The Guardian China to Restrict Coal Demand, Output to 3.9 Billion Tons Bloomberg China may miss new target to cut coal output growth [...]
Tackling (Paying) For Pollution Solves Rare Earth Problem, Not the WTO
Posted in General Content, tagged china rare earth, trade environment on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reuters brings some analysis to the rare earth trade debate and provides some additional support for arguments I made in a previous post on the issue. Reuters - China’s message has been consistent: it deserves to profit more from its dominant role in the supply of the 17 vital elements used in a wide range [...]
The Sordid State of Chinese Wind Development
Posted in General Content on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bloomberg Businessweek just published a fascinating article on corporate espionage and China’s wind industry is on the wrong end of the story, particularly Sinovel. The story focuses on the relationship between US based AMSC, a maker of high-tech computer innards that are the brains of wind turbines and China’s largest turbine maker, Sinovel. Businessweek – [...]
Be Careful What You Wish For: Why China’s rare earth dominance is what the West bargained for
Posted in General Content, tagged china rare earths, china wto on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, President Obama announced from the White House Rose Garden that the US, Japan, and the EU were filing a complaint with the WTO targeting China’s export controls for rare earth minerals. For background on the legal issues involved and how this case relates to another recent case brought by the US and EU targeting China’s export [...]
New Pathways: Researching Wind Power in China
Posted in General Content, VLS-China Student Research on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This post is from Nat Green, a second year law student at VLS and a joint research project (JRP) student for 2011-2012 with the US-China Partnership for Environmental Law. The JRP students recently traveled to China to meet their research partners and further their projects. These posts will share the students’ experiences on the research [...]
China Environmental Law Newsletter 3 (环境司法电子通讯第三期草稿）
Posted in China Environmental News Roundup, General Content, tagged China environment courts, china environment law news on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My colleague, Yanmei Lin, has completed the third edition of the Environmental Law Newsletter (环境司法电子通讯第三期草稿). This edition, available only in Chinese, examines civil liability for polluters as it pertains to chromium pollution and does so in the context of the pending case of Friends of Nature v. Luliang Chemical Company － a potentially groundbreaking case [...]
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