Hebei is home to seven of China's ten smoggiest cities.
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The researchers found that, just as with soot, people in the smoggiest cities die prematurely.
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The agency manages air pollution for much of Southern California, one of the smoggiest regions in the United States.
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The policy would come into effect in 2020 and would be implemented in the smoggiest northern regions of the country.
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An environmental crackdown targeting the country's 28 smoggiest cities across the north will also prop up prices and crushing margins.
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Southern California is having its smoggiest summer in nearly a decade and hospitals report an increase of people with breathing problems.
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Tangshan in China's Hebei province was ranked by the Ministry of Environmental Protection as one of the country's 10 smoggiest cities last year.
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Hebei produces around a quarter of China's steel, and according to official rankings is home to seven of the country's 10 smoggiest cities.
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From the nearly 80,000 pictures made from 1971 to 1976, Business Insider curated a portrait of New York City at its smoggiest and roughest.
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On Tuesday, the smoggiest province, Hebei, said six local enterprises had violated emergency restrictions during the latest alerts, with one refusing entry to inspectors.
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The production rise came despite Beijing's stringent crackdown on heavy manufacturing in 28 of its smoggiest cities as part of its war on winter smog.
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Hebei province, which surrounds the capital Beijing, contained five of China's 10 smoggiest cities in the first three quarters of this year, according to official data.
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The city produces nearly 100 million tonnes of crude steel a year, more than the United States, and is routinely listed among China's 10 smoggiest cities.
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Tangshan was ranked as China's smoggiest city in September among 169 tracked by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the ministry said in a report on Thursday.
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Hebei, which produces around a quarter of China's steel, had seven of the country's 10 smoggiest cities last year, despite efforts to clean up industries and cut coal consumption.
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In fact, some areas of the state now have more smog than the smoggiest cities in the world because of smoke drifts from the Camp Fire and other wildfires.
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According to official 2015 data, seven of China's 10 smoggiest cities were located in Hebei, the same as 2014 despite an economic downturn and a campaign to cut industrial capacity.
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From January to October, the data showed, China's five smoggiest cities were all located in the province of Hebei, which is the biggest steel producing region and a major consumer of coal.
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Experts say enforcement is lax amid concern about the impact on economic growth and jobs in Hebei, which surrounds Beijing and was home to seven of China's 10 smoggiest cities last year.
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Hebei, home of seven of China's 10 smoggiest cities last year, has declared 2017 to be the "year of transformation and upgrading", the province said on its official website on Saturday (www.hebei.gov.cn).
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The step is an "important political task", the port notice said, as China's central government aims to cut pollution in Beijing, Hebei province and Tianjin, one of the smoggiest regions of the country.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Hebei, China's smoggiest province, on Friday said it would ensure it meets its targets to replace coal with natural gas, while accelerating efforts to achieve politically crucial 2017 air quality targets.
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Heibei, heartland of steelmaking and also home to six of China's 10 smoggiest cities in the first nine months of this year, is on the frontline of the country's campaign against air pollution.
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The smoggiest were typically in the eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia, where air pollution in two-thirds of the cities measured saw increases in soot and small particle concentrations of 5 percent or more.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Northern China's Hebei, the country's smoggiest province, has fired and reprimanded more than a dozen city-level officials for failing to control air pollution last year, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.
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China, the world's biggest producer of aluminum - used in aeroplanes, cars and beverage cans - ordered smelters in 23 of its smoggiest northern cities to cut output by 20183 percent from mid-November to mid-March.
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During the region's smoggiest stretches, air quality can deteriorate to levels that some groups say are equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, or around 30 times the World Health Organization's safe limit.
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A similar stratification is applied to the three-tier city of Gravity Rush 0003, where the poorest citizens are ostracized at the very bottom of the skyspace, living in a shanty town amid the smoggiest air.
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The government is still leaving nothing to chance, with some of China's smoggiest cities under pressure to complete annual steel and coal closure targets by the end of September and implement tougher restrictions in the following months.
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Hebei, home to six of China's 1.93 smoggiest cities in the first three quarters of this year, is on the frontline of the country's "war on pollution" and is beginning a stringent winter campaign to curb emissions.
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Provincial authorities ordered mills, including some owned by HBIS Group, the world's fourth largest steelmaker, in almost a dozen of its smoggiest cities to shut, move to a new industrial park on the coast or get out.
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The area, home to six of China's 10 smoggiest cities in the first quarter of this year, has promised to upgrade or shut vast swathes of polluting industry as it tries to meet 20073 air quality targets.
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China's massive steel sector is regarded as a major source of air pollution, particularly in Hebei province, the country's largest producer of the metal and the location of seven of the country's 10 smoggiest cities last year.
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While aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, the president noted that it was a "coincidence" that the announcement came while he was in Los Angeles, which has long been known as one of the smoggiest US cities.
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Hebei, China's biggest steel producing region and home to six of China's 10 smoggiest cities last year, has already said that its priority in 2017 would be controlling emissions from "dispersed" coal burning by households and small enterprises.
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The world's second-largest economy is investing in infrastructure from pipelines to storage tanks as Beijing prepares to switch from coal-fired boilers and heating systems across 28 of its smoggiest cities to natural gas or electricity by October.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Seven of China's 10 smoggiest cities were located in the northern steel-producing province of Hebei in 2015, the same as the previous year, despite an economic downturn and a high-profile campaign to cut industrial capacity.
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Located around 100 miles east of the capital Beijing, Tangshan is on the frontline of the country's "war on pollution", and was seventh on the list of China's ten smoggiest cities in the first two months of this year.
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Hebei, home to six of China's 10 smoggiest cities in the first two months of the year, is on the frontline of China's three-year war on pollution, and has targeted cutting coal consumption by 40 million tonnes over 2013-13.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has set itself a staggering task to cure its smothering pollution: switching coal-fired boilers and heating systems in at least 1.2 million households in 28 of its smoggiest northern cities to run on gas or electricity.
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On Saturday, Hebei, the northern province home to six of China's 10 smoggiest cities in the first two months of 2017, said it would take more action to shut "backward" coal-fired power plants, promote new energy vehicles and shift industries.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Northern China's Hebei, home to seven of the country's 10 smoggiest cities, has pledged to double up its efforts to tackle hazardous pollution following an environment ministry report accusing the province of failing to rein in law-breaking industries.
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Hebei, home to nearly a quarter of China's steel capacity and the location of six of the country's 10 smoggiest cities, has been shutting down industrial plants and curbing coal use to reduce air pollution, much of which drifts into neighbouring Beijing.
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Routinely listed among China's top 10 smoggiest cities, Tangshan in Hebei province is on the frontline of the government's war on pollution, and is under pressure to cut emissions of small, breathable particles known as PM2.5 by 22 percent over the winter months.
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The region, also known as Jing-Jin-Ji, was home to eight of China's 10 smoggiest cities in September and is involved in a winter campaign that will slash industrial output and restrict traffic in a bid to meet air quality targets.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's smoggiest cities have pledged to ramp up the battle on pollution after air quality deteriorated in the first few months of this year, the China Daily reported on Monday, as smog blanketed the capital, Beijing, and the surrounding region.
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Read more: 35 vintage photos taken by the EPA reveal what American cities looked like before pollution was regulatedLos Angeles has a history of unlivable conditions due to air pollution, and was previously ranked the smoggiest city in 2010 and 2011, according to Environment America.
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Coal turkey has got me on the runChina has set itself a staggering task to cure its smothering pollution: switching coal-fired boilers and heating systems in at least 1.2 million households in 28 of its smoggiest northern cities to run on gas or electricity.
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But Hebei, a northern province with some of the country's smoggiest cities, and other regions still have a fight on their hands to cut the use of dirty fuels like coal and deal with the costly consequences of the restructuring: how to find new jobs or incomes for laid off workers.
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In the same report by the American Lung Association, Los Angeles was ranked the smoggiest city in the U.S. According to Jack, helicopters are significant sources of particulate air pollution, and have been shown to be major sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon particles (PAHs)—an especially harmful component of particulate air pollution.
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The deceleration is the first admission from the central government that its effort to switch households and factories in the country's smoggiest cities away from coal to gas or electric heating may have been implemented too quickly, and without the critical infrastructure and domestic output to meet the resulting surge in demand.
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Ecoregion description The air quality in the vicinity of the field, as recorded in the town of Arvin to the west, is among the worst in the United States.Thanawala, Sudhin. "Calif. Town Is Nation's Smoggiest", Associated Press.
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The city's level of ozone, smog's primary component, exceeded the EPA's acceptable limits an average of 73 days per year between 2004 and 2006.Thanawala, Sudhin. "Calif. Town Is Nation's Smoggiest", Associated Press. Wired telephone numbers in Arvin follow the format (661) 854-xxxx or (661) 855-xxxx and the ZIP Code is 93203.
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Initially, the SCAB had four air- quality management agencies, one for each of the four counties. In 1977, the legislature merged these four agencies into the South Coast Air Quality Management District—South Coast AQMD. The SCAB is the smoggiest region of the U.S., and the South Coast AQMD provides hourly reports throughout the district. The South Coast AQMD has jurisdiction over stationary sources of pollution, while the California Air Resources Board has jurisdiction for mobile sources of pollution, including automobiles and trucks.
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CBE works with various southern California communities especially the most polluted in the country. The Los Angeles area, Riverside communities, San Bernardino, and Orange County were ranked the smoggiest area in the nation in 2012 when it comes to air pollution. CBE works with other cities in southern California like Wilmington, Huntington Park, and the various cities that surround the Interstate 710, to minimize the exposure from residents living near it. The Southern California offices are also well versed in community active with subgroups of youths joining CBE ranks to fight environmental injustice in their heavily impacted, people of color communities.
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