New Satellite Data Reveal Impact Of Olympic Pollution Controls

Chinese government regulators had clearer skies and easier breathing in mind in the summer of 2008 when they temporarily shuttered some factories and banished many cars in a pre-Olympic sprint to clean up Beijing’s air. And that’s what they got. They were not necessarily planning for something else: an unprecedented experiment using satellites to measure the impact of air pollution controls.

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Filed under: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture on January 3rd, 2009