News Summary: Beijing smog prompts transparency
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Source: Business News
Originally published: Jan 14, 2013 - 11:43 am
Originally published: Jan 14, 2013 - 11:43 am
(AP) - CLEARING THE AIR: One of Beijing's worst rounds of air pollution kept schoolchildren indoors and sent coughing residents to hospitals Monday, but this time something was different about the murky haze: the government's transparency in talking about it.
NEW PRESSURE: Beijing's new openness about smog also put more pressure on the government to address underlying causes, including a lag in efforts to expand emissions limits to all of the vehicles in Beijing's notoriously thick traffic.
WHAT THEY DID: Government officials- who have played down past periods of heavy smog- held news conferences and posted messages on microblogs discussing the pollution.
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