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Liu Youbin, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, on Monday promised “administrative measures” would be taken to clean up the heavy cloud of smog that has descended over the city of Beijing on the eve of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg sent a letter revealed on Tuesday to anti-communist Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong, a political prisoner under the Chinese regime, in which she expressed “love, support, and strength.”

Indian officials on Wednesday announced six of the eleven coal-fired power plants around New Delhi have been shut down in a bid to reduce air pollution, which has grown so oppressive that schools are closed, construction work has been banned, and a full lockdown of the city is under consideration.

Hunter Biden, whose advice the president admits to be taking on matters of global engagement, still owns 10% of a Chinese investment firm controlled by state entities.

Vatican foreign minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher said Sunday that the environment is a natural meeting point in dialogue between the Holy See and Beijing.

Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher on Friday urged a U.N. High-Level Dialogue on Energy to abandon fossil fuels because climate change is causing untold damage.

A majority of Americans say China is responsible for the bulk of environmental pollution and damage, a Trafalgar Group survey released Thursday found.

Hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels illegally occupying the Philippines’ Spratly Islands are allegedly dumping vast amounts of human waste into the surrounding South China Sea causing an ecological “catastrophe” that threatens the health of local marine ecosystems and fishing stocks, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

Endless forecasts of impending climate peril built on floods, fires, droughts, pestilience, and rising sea levels as favored by “climate action heroes” are “wearing the public out,” former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger warned Thursday.

Nigeria’s environmental agency said on Sunday it has the power to prosecute mosques and churches that “refuse to abide” by national guidelines limiting public noise pollution caused by unregulated loudspeakers, Nigeria’s Daily Trust newspaper reported Monday.

The leaders of some of the world’s wealthiest countries – with the notable exception of China – published a joint statement following the end of the G7 summit on Sunday vowing a “new deal” for the continent of Africa and heavy investment in a “green revolution” for the world.

China, the world’s largest polluter, is defending itself by claiming polluting is a human right in the name of development in the country.

China’s Global Times state propaganda outlet attacked teen environmental celebrity Greta Thunberg on Sunday, dismissing her as “short of sufficient academic knowledge” and mocking her for “skipping school” after she condemned China’s outsized contributions to world pollution.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is fluent in globalist rhetoric, including the language of the environmentalist movement, but in reality it remains the gravest threat to the Earth’s atmosphere and ecosystems.

The BBC has recorded heartbreaking footage of a once-beautiful coral reef choked with floating PPE equipment and discarded face masks.

Air pollution killed 54,000 people in New Delhi, India’s national capital, last year, Greenpeace Southeast Asia revealed in a study published Thursday.

In an interview with Chinese state media on Monday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates saluted China – the worst polluter and emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet – and its autocratic ruler Xi Jinping for “making climate a priority.”

In an ironic twist, a Paris court has convicted the French government of not upholding its commitments stemming from the Paris climate accord.

he move comes as reports surface on how massive used turbine blades aren’t recyclable and are being dumped in landfills.

Los Angeles has suffered its worst year in decades for smog and air quality, despite coronavirus lockdowns and stay-at-home orders that kept many residents off the roads.

A study published in the journal Cardiovascular Research Tuesday found that potentially millions of deaths of Chinese coronavirus patients may be linked to air pollution weakening the local population’s lungs.

CLAIM: During Tuesday night’s presidential debate, President Donald Trump challenged former Vice President Joe Biden’s argument for returning to the Paris climate agreement by arguing that China “sends real dirt up into the air,” alongside Russia and India, but only “we’re supposed to be good.”

BERLIN (AP) – The European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday that buyers of Volkswagen cars fitted with software installed to cheat diesel emissions tests can sue the automaker in the country where they bought the car rather than seeking damages in Germany.

Nearly 90 percent of the world’s most polluted cities are in China and India, and the majority of the rest are in Pakistan and Indonesia, researchers from the 2019 World Air Quality Report revealed on Tuesday.

The Chinese government is selling Kenya tons of fish poisoned with high levels of toxins like mercury, lead, and arsenic, the African country’s The Nation newspaper revealed in a study published Wednesday.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg claimed that India is an “even bigger problem” than China on carbon emissions.

President Donald Trump continued his campaign against windmills on Saturday, issuing one of the most detailed takedowns to date of one of the environmentalist’s favorite forms of energy.

International researchers estimate that as much as 73 percent of the garbage in the Atlantic Ocean originates from Chinese merchant vessels, Canada’s National Post reported on Tuesday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday to urging globalism and “multilateralism,” arguing that India has a “unique” understanding of “belonging beyond borders.”

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is ready to slap San Francisco, California, with a notice of environmental violations as a result of their homelessness problem.

If Democrats really believe that climate change is an existential threat to humanity, why are they proposing draconian and pointless curbs on the behavior of ordinary Americans? Why aren’t they going after multinationals that continue to do business with the world’s biggest polluter, China?

Democrat presidential candidate Julian Castro said Wednesday his climate plan would address “environmental injustice and racism,” arguing that the poorest are the worst-affected by climate change.

Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) revealed a $3 trillion plan to combat climate change and called for the creation of a United States “Environmental Justice Fund.”

The Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment claimed on Friday that the trade war between the U.S. and China is making it difficult for the latter to hit carbon emissions targets, even though Chinese researchers claimed just two weeks ago they were well ahead of schedule on meeting their emissions goals.

A major Pride even in the left-progressive Green Party stronghold of Brighton, England, left the local beach littered with rubbish and hundreds of empty laughing gas canisters.

The “liberal coalition” is largely silent on the country’s rapid population growth caused nearly entirely by legal immigration and its impact on the environment, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steve Camarota says.