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Beijing will soon have pollution police:
Officials in Beijing are taking steps toward tackling the city's long-standing smog problem with the creation of an environmental police force, according to state media. Spearheaded by Beijing's acting mayor Mayor Cai Qi, the political crackdown on burning fossil fuels comes amid a flurry of concern over the country's choking air pollution.
[...] The new environmental police would among other things, crack down on open-air barbecues, garbage incineration and biomass burning — areas previously overlooked by authorities, Xinhua reported. "Open-air barbecues, garbage incineration, biomass burning, dust from roads -- these acts of non-compliance with regulations are actually the result of lax supervision and weak law enforcement," Cai said. He did not say when the program would begin.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @07:05PM
oh so all the pollution is from people cooking some food outside etc, not the companies who have paid off government officials. now the same corrupt thieves are going to send out ecopigs to steal from the poor.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday January 10 2017, @07:50PM
When it comes to smog inefficient combustion does have an out-sized impact.
Even before environmental concerns it's in the best interests of e.g. power plants to burn efficiently because that means they need to use less fuel.
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Tuesday January 10 2017, @09:21PM
When it comes to smog inefficient combustion does have an out-sized impact.
I see you may have experienced the thermal de-polymerization experiments I conduct when I BBQ in the late summer as the pear tree in my back yard drops about 100 lbs of shitty bug eaten pears. I highly recommend meat that has been smoked over 10lbs of pears though.
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