Beijing Air Quality

U.S. Embassy: Beijing Air Quality Is 'Crazy Bad'

AP | CHI-CHI ZHANG | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — Pollution in Beijing was so bad Friday the U.S. Embassy, which has been independently monitoring air quality, ran out of conventional ...

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Why Attack the Clean Air Act? -- It Prevents Our Air From Looking Like Beijing's

Peter Lehner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Lehner

Pollution brings Beijing back into the past -- like New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo in the fifties and sixties -- when a "London fog" would make the noontime look like night .

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China Criticism Must Continue

Graham Bensinger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Graham Bensinger

There were columnists during the Olympic Games suggesting that China's image is changing. It's incredibly ignorant to even imply that.

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Beijing's Green Olympics: How Green Are The Games?

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The events leading up to today's opening ceremony illuminated much of Beijing's environmental issues. China went to great efforts to reduce the city's...

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A Green Spotlight on the Olympic Games

Andrew Smeall | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Smeall

Unlike many of the issues seeking political spotlight at the Games, greenhouse gases do not recognize national borders.

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Is the IOC Helping Beijing Hide Its Pollution?

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alex Pasternack

When I was out on the pale white moonscape of the Olympic green on Monday, my throat had the particular tickle of particulates. It wasn't just the intense heat -- and I wasn't even running the 10,000 meter.

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