China’s state news agency Xinhua just announced a pilot program to “control” coal consumption in a few dozen major cities, including Beijing. January’s “airpocalypse“, when pollution reached unprecedented levels, spurred outrage among Beijing residents, who lose some 40 babies a year to air pollution from nearby coal plants. So is it time for China’s parents, environmentalists […]

via Quartz http://qz.com/118967/chinas-plan-to-limit-coal-pollution-will-benefit-the-rich-but-leave-the-rest-of-the-country-gasping