Chinese Town’s Response to Poisonous Lead Factory: Move the Town
2009 October 21
Increasingly, concern over environmental health in cities and towns across China has led to angry public protests that have halted construction on or closed a number of factories. But after outrage over lead poisoning in a town in central China, authorities aren’t turning off the smelters at fault. They’re moving the whole town.
The mayor of Jiyuan in Henan province — home to the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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