Cleaner Air is Just HEALTHIER

[Randy W]

MUCH better now - I'm sticking with over-the-counter stuff now. Pseudo-ephedrine is harder to find these days, Tylenol Cold is still available, but hard to find.

[Randy W]

in the NY Times

 

In China’s Coal Country, a Ban Brings Blue Skies and Cold Homes

 

QIAOLI, China — A monument to China’s efforts to wean itself from coal rises on the outskirts of this village deep in the heart of the nation’s coal country.

Scores of old coal stoves have been dumped in a lot, removed by government decree in recent months in favor of cleaner-burning natural gas furnaces.

“Defend blue sky and breathe together,” an exhortation painted on the brick wall surrounding the lot says. “Manage haze and work together.”

. . .

What has happened here in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, the country’s largest coal-producing region, and in other regions shows how far the government has gone in imposing its environmentalism from above. Eager to impress Beijing, officials in this province of 37 million people have moved so aggressively that in some cases they have created unintended consequences.