emissions standards Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:35:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 China Faces Uphill Battle in Efforts to Combat Air Pollution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/china-efforts-combat-pollution-20130126/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/china-efforts-combat-pollution-20130126/#respond Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:35:57 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32088 China has an uphill battle ahead in its efforts to curb the country’s very serious air pollution problem. 2012 saw a drop in the emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, chemical oxygen, and ammonia nitrogen, and 2013 is projected to have an even greater drop. However, China is plagued by such severe air pollution that […]

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