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Friday, September 24, 2010

Why China's Environmental Laws Have Been Useless in Stopping Pollution

great wall pollution photo
photo: Charlotte Marillet via flickr
It's no secret that China's economic growth has contributed to massive environmental problems in the nation; it's also fairly well known that China has actually enacted some pretty strict laws trying to stop that degradation, in fact some are stricter than in the United States. The effectiveness of those laws is, in the words of Peking University's law professor Wang Jin writing in China Dialogue bluntly "useless". Here's why.
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