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RESIGNED. XIE ZHENHUA, 56, Director of China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA); in the aftermath of the Nov. 13 chemical plant explosion, which spewed 100 tons of pollutants into the Songhua River; in Beijing. Xie is the highest-ranking official to lose his job over an environmental disaster. Official reports gave no details on Xie's role in government decisions to withhold information from the public about the river contamination, which resulted in a four-day shut-off of water for more than 3 million people in the city of Harbin. The poisonous slick, expected to reach the Russian...
...volume of volatile organic compounds" without increasing costs, says Swartz. "That's not limousine liberal, not self-indulgent. It is hard-nosed business. That is the innovation we seek." When foreign vendors complain that water-based adhesives are too expensive, Swartz says, Timberland invites their engineers to its plant in the Dominican Republic and shows them how to cut costs...
...track the life cycle of our products. We want to know what our products are doing three steps downstream and how they are eventually recycled back into the environment. It's much more efficient if you look at the total life cycle instead of what happens at one manufacturing plant...
...preparing for his funeral. Last Tuesday afternoon, Lin joined what locals estimate was a 1,000-strong protest in southern China's Dongzhou village, where three people had been detained while demanding compensation for land that residents say had been seized by local officials to build a power plant. Hundreds of riot police and soldiers, plus several tanks, were called in to disperse the protesters with tear gas?not that unusual in a country where standoffs over everything from environmental degradation to land seizures are increasing every year. In 2004, China was rocked by 74,000 "mass incidents," according...
...span two-thirds of the economy. The report, which many economists greeted as positive but something short of extraordinary, nonetheless prompted Bush to make a short, rallying statement in the White House Rose Garden. Today in Kernersville, N.C., Bush will bring that message to a 15-year-old manufacturing plant jointly operated by John Deere & Co. and Japan's Hitachi...