Thursday, March 06, 2014

First 'Orange' Pollution Alert as Smog Rolls into Beijing but where the hell is the Red alert?

Cars travel on a road amid heavy haze in Beijing on Feb. 21, 2014. /Reuters

 First 'Orange' Pollution Alert as Smog Rolls into Beijing:  The orange level, the second highest, advises schools and kindergartens to cancel outside sports classes, but falls short of ordering school to close and keeping government vehicles off the road, provisions which come into force with the "red" level.                                           

   Some residents welcomed the announcement. Others asked why more was not being done. "Excuse me, but do the PM2.5 measurements have to explode off the charts before we see a red alert?" said a user of weibo, China's twitter-like microblogging service.

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A policeman gestures as he works on a street in heavy smog in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Oct. 21.


 
200,000 people die every year in China because of air pollution.

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