Near-record smog in NE China prompt calls for wider curbs on coal
Winter has come, and for China's three north-eastern provinces, so has a blanket of smog. The region has leapfrogged the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area to become the most polluted in China during 2015. Levels of PM2.5 in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning, hit a daily average 1156 micrograms per cubic metre on November 8, and peaked at 1400mg per cubic metre – 56 times the WHO limit…
