The Beijing News backs a proposal by the capital's mayor to follow the example of the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions and set up a joint air pollution control system between Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
The story beginning overleaf assesses the implications for marine biodiversity of transgressing planetary boundaries, due to human-induced changes to the climate system, pollution and ocean acidification, as well as more direct threats like invasive species, overfishing and habitat destruction.
As chief executive, Mr. Leung will have to confront a raft of issues currently facing the city, including high levels of pollution, an overstretched education system and global economic headwinds.
The new system may be generating less pollution, but it is also generating mountains of complaints.
As president of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp helped establish a market-based cap-and-trade system to limit acid rain pollution in the late 1980s.
Its report grades cities using, in part, the EPA's color-coded Air Quality Index, as well as its own weighting system that ranks the severity of pollution on a daily basis.
Captain Rick Masterman said the system will also be used to track pollution such as oil spills.
The plan says that "each party shall maintain a national system for responding promptly and effectively to oil pollution incidents" without requiring any clear details on the number of ships or personnel that would be needed to cope with a spillage.
Sulphur dioxide pollution in America has been cut by a successful cap-and-trade system.
This system of impromptu bike renting is helping urban areas reduce automotive traffic and pollution while providing locals and tourists with a convenient, cheap and healthy means of transport.
But with traffic congestion and pollution growing, and infrastructure buckling, Bangkok may need more radical solutions than a monorail system.
Gypsy-gadje relations are made even trickier where traditional groups still observe laws shaped by a sense of imminent defilement, the idea (more understandable when framed within an Indian caste system) that contact with gadje, particularly sexual contact, is a kind of pollution punishable by banishment.
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