Monday, February 13, 2017

Exclusive: China mulls radical output cuts, port coal ban in war on smog - document

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Exclusive: China mulls radical output cuts, port coal ban in war on smog - document

FILE PHOTO: People walk along a village road on a polluted day on the outskirts of LangfangBy Meng Meng and Josephine Mason BEIJING (Reuters) - China is considering forcing steel and aluminum producers to cut more output, banning coal in one of the country's top ports and shutting some fertilizer and drug plants as Beijing intensifies its war on smog, a draft policy document shows. The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has proposed the measures in the document seen by Reuters. If implemented, they would be some of the most radical steps so far to tackle air quality in the country's most polluted cities.


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