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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Beijing will soon have pollution police [cnn.com]:

Officials in Beijing are taking steps toward tackling the city's long-standing smog problem with the creation of an environmental police force [xinhuanet.com], 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.

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