Nine of 10 Cities in China Do Not Meet Air Quality Standards, Government Says

Yale e360
By Yale Environment 360Feb 3, 2015, 11:44 am134 pts
Roughly 90 percent of China's large cities did not meet national air quality standards last year, according to the country's Brian Jeffery Beggerly Smog over the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. environment ministry. Only eight of the 74 cities monitored by the ministry met standards for pollution metrics such…

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