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JUL 31, 2008
Green Lessons Of The Games
The Straights Times
Billing the Games as the Green Olympics, China will have to deliver on the air pollution score as convincingly as it is doing on the security front with robust and visible measures against terrorist threats. It will have to match the political and public relation skills with which it has defended its Tibet and human rights records.
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JUL 29, 2008
Beijing Weighs Added Pollution Plans for Olympics
The New York Times
Less than two weeks before the Olympics, Beijing’s skies are so murky and polluted that the authorities are considering emergency measures during the Games beyond the traffic restrictions and factory shutdowns that, so far, have failed to clear the air, state media reported on Monday.
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JUL 29, 2008
Olympic Pollution Controls Cost Chinese Industry
Forbes
Factory shutdowns and other industrial restrictions intended to help reduce Beijing's eye-searing smog for the Olympics are making business more complicated - and costly - for Chinese providers of steel, pharmaceuticals and other goods and services.
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JUL 29, 2008
Bad Air Clouds Upcoming Beijing Games, Raises Concerns for Athletes
ABC News (KTKA, America)
[Video] The thick cloud shrouding Beijing is air pollution that is three times the recommended level. When athletes breathe in polluted air, the lungs start to swell, and the airways become constricted, making it difficult to breathe. Officials are now looking into a clean-air emergency plan that may involve more traffic restrictions in a last-ditch effort to deliver the green Olympics China promised.
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JUL 29, 2008
Beijing Losing Battle Against Olympic Smog
The Independent
With 10 days to go until the Beijing Olympics opens, the smog simply refuses to lift and the Games organisers are preparing emergency measures to clear the air ahead of the big day.
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