China slowly improving environmental transparency.

• Author: Block, Ben
• Position: EYE ON EARTH - Brief article

Under a new public disclosure law, cities across China are slowly becoming more forthright with environmental information, according to a study by U.S. and Chinese environmental groups. The "Measures on Open Environmental Information" ruling, which took effect last year, requires municipalities to disclose which companies violated pollution regulations and caused large pollution incidents, and how much contamination these polluters released.

To measure the law's success, the Beijing-based...