Standard Page | 2011-06-04 at 13:51
Greenpeace is campaigning for China to end its reliance on coal-burning, and instead transition to a green development pathway powered by green energy.
Coal Ash: China's Forgotten..
Coal Ash: China's Forgotten Pollutant
When people think of dirty coal, air pollution usually comes first to mind. But coal ash, the solid byproduct of burning coal, has many devastating impacts – after all, this is China's largest source of solid waste. Read on for a photo essay on...
Coal's Hidden Health Hazards
Feature Story | 2010-09-02 at 15:01
Did you know that mercury from coal combustion can travel more than 1,000km? That's the distance from Guangzhou to Shanghai. Learn more about coal's health impacts, as well as ten tips to reduce your exposure to air pollution.
Coal-fired power plants are the biggest source of human-made carbon dioxide emissions. This makes burning coal the single greatest threat facing our climate. A huge portion of China's carbon dioxide emissions come from burning coal. If we are to...
Toxic Coal Ash is China's..
Toxic Coal Ash is China's Single Largest Source of Solid Waste
Press release | 2010-09-15 at 6:00
Beijing, 15 Sept 2010 – China's coal-fired power plants dump enough toxic coal ash to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every two and a half minutes, Greenpeace says in its latest report The True Cost of Coal: An Investigation into Coal Ash in...
Heavy metals and toxics..
Heavy metals and toxics found in CLP's fly ash
Greenpeace found toxic heavy metals, namely mercury and arsenic, in the fly ash produced by China Light and Power (CLP). Both mercury and arsenic have not been completely captured by the existing pollution control devices, a prolonged exposure to...
Shameless CLP continues..
Shameless CLP continues coal-burning pollution
Today our activists exposed the "Five Environmental Sins" committed by China Light and Power (CLP), and protested outside the Legislative Council (Legco) together with their members, Emily Lau, Kwong Chi Kin, Li Wah Ming and Leung Kwok Hung,...
Beijing, Hong Kong,..
Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai Exposed to Toxic Coal Ash via Sandstorms
Dust is not the only makeup of China's infamous sandstorms, which also contain toxic pollutants from coal combustion, according to a new Greenpeace report, The True Cost of Coal – Coal Dust Storms: Toxic Wind. Sandstorms can disperse coal ash –...
Campaigns Reports
The True Cost of Coal: Coal..
The True Cost of Coal: Coal Dust Storms: Toxic Wind
Publication | 2011-04-14 at 10:24
Dust is not the only makeup of China's infamous sandstorms, which also contain toxic pollutants from coal combustion. Sandstorms can disperse coal ash – containing arsenic, selenium and lead – far from their origin in coal-industry areas to...
China Wind Power Outlook 2011
Publication | 2011-06-16 at 0:00
A summary of the China Wind Power Outlook 2011, a report that analyses the prospects and obstacles facing both the wind and solar power sectors.
Toxic Winds: Coal Ash in Sandstorms
Image gallery | 2011-04-13
Image | 2010-09-15 at 6:00
June, 2010. A "coal ash storm" in Shuimotou Village, Shuozhou, Shanxi Province, where Shentou No.2 Power Plant is located.
Hey China! That dust-filled..
Hey China! That dust-filled air you're breathing is toxic
Blog entry by Harri Lammi | 2012-04-27
Beijing residents this morning woke up to grey skies and a thick layer of dust on their cars and bicycles. Greenpeace campaigners headed out onto the streets dressed as themal power plant workers with huge posters of China's coal...
Greenpeace activists..
Greenpeace activists investigate pollution
Greenpeace activists investigate pollution from a coal ash disposal site belonging to the Shentou Number 2 Power Plant, Shuozhou, Shanxi province. Many of the villages around the landfill are very polluted. The villagers have reported the...
Image | 2010-09-17 at 15:05
Greenpeace activists investigate pollution from a coal ash disposal site belonging to the Shentou Number 2 Power Plant, Shuozhou, Shanxi province. This disposal site does not have any safeguards – not even retaining walls – to protect against...
The arrival of the Shentou..
The arrival of the Shentou Number 2 Power
The arrival of the Shentou Number 2 Power Plant's coal ash disposal site has irrevocably changed Mayi Village, which dates back to the Tang dynasty. Leakages from ash ponds have raised the groundwater and flooded the villagers' cellars; cattle...
The people of Mayi villager..
The people of Mayi villager have reported
The people of Mayi villager have reported the problems of coal ash pollution to the Shentou Number 2 Power Station several times, but to no avail. The power station's only response has been to merely continue with its "ecological management" that...
Greenpeace activists investigate a coal ash
Greenpeace activists investigate a coal ash disposal site that belongs to the Yuanbaoshan Power Plant, in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. The disposal site is located in a small valley, which the power plant has divided into more than 10 sections. One...
Zhao Picheng's home in..
Zhao Picheng's home in Shuimotou village
Zhao Picheng's home in Shuimotou village has been ruined by the Shentou Number 2 Power Plant, Shuozhou, Shanxi province. Continued leakage from the plant's coal ash pond has raised groundwater levels, flooding cellars in the village. Extended...
A brooding evening..
A brooding evening rainstorm partially obscures
A brooding evening rainstorm partially obscures the Shentou Number 2 Power Plant, Shuozhou, Shanxi province. Its ash pond is in the foreground.
Ash chokes the sky above a..
Ash chokes the sky above a coal ash dam owned
Ash chokes the sky above a coal ash dam owned by the Shentou Number 2 Power Plant, in Shuimotou village, Shuozhou, Shanxi province. With even the lightest wind, the tiny particles take flight, blotting out the sky like a thick sandstorm of ash.
July to August 2010
July to August 2010. After filling each coal ash disposal site, the Yuanbaoshan Power Plant, in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, covers the ash pile with dirt and then plants crops on top. It is meant to control the dust against wind dispersal, but...
The Togtoh Power Station..
The Togtoh Power Station belongs to the China
The Togtoh Power Station belongs to the China Datang Corp, one of the country's Big Five power companies, and has an installed capacity of 5.4GW. One of Asia's biggest thermal power stations, it produces about 4.6 million tons of coal ash every...
Dust-filled air does not prevent these children from playing after school in a village near the Yuanbaoshan Power Plant's coal ash disposal site, in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia.
Trucks at a coal mine
A herd of cows walk away..
A herd of cows walk away after drinking from
A herd of cows walk away after drinking from the contaminated water here in the coal ash disposal site of the Yuanbaoshan Power Plant. Chifeng, Inner Mongolia.
The wind blankets the air..
The wind blankets the air with coal ash
The wind blankets the air with coal ash. Yuanbaoshan Power Plant, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia.
The house of villager Liu..
The house of villager Liu Sanhu
The house of villager Liu Sanhu, in Houshi'erquan Village, near the Fengzhen Power Plant's coal ash disposal site. Liu hopes that his two sons will be able to leave this place and go to college, he says the village is no longer suited for life.
The Gongwusu open
The Gongwusu open-air coal mine in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia
The Gongwusu open-air coal mine, in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia
Trucks continue to dump..
Trucks continue to dump coal ash into this
Trucks continue to dump coal ash into this valley that has already been nearly filled. The coal ash disposal site belonging to the Dawukou Power Plant, Shizuishan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
Flue gas desulfurization..
Flue gas desulfurization gypsum is transported
Flue gas desulfurization gypsum is transported from the power plant and dumped into the coal ash disposal site, in Huinong. Shizuishan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
A layer of corn husks is..
A layer of corn husks is all the protection
A layer of corn husks is all the protection that this coal ash disposal site has to prevent wind dispersal of the tiny, light ash particles. Shentou, Shuozhou, Shanxi province.
The wind blankets the air with coal ash. Yuanbaoshan Power Plant, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia
A Greenpeace campaigner..
A Greenpeace campaigner takes a sample of
A Greenpeace campaigner takes a sample of the air to test for toxic pollutants at Shuimotou village. Shentou, Shuozhou, Shanxi province.
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