POLLUTION
Steel cuts in China to vary from mill to mill in war on pollution
Beijing — Production cuts in China’s steel sector will vary from mill to mill in autumn and winter, said an environmental ministry official, as the country shifts away from a "one size fits all" approach to fighting pollution. The state council said in July that 82 cities required to take special antismog measures over autumn and winter and would be able to draw up their own plans for those steps. "This year, production curbs will definitely be differentiated based on the emission level at each steel mill," Liu Bingjiang, director of the air environmental management department at the ministry of environment and ecology said on Saturday. Industrial plants in the steel, cement and primary aluminium sectors in 28 northern cities were ordered to cut up to 50% of their capacity last winter as part of the government’s years-long "war on pollution". But some local officials simply imposed blanket production suspensions on all industrial enterprises regardless of their emission levels, stok...
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