The Environment Development Center of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has signed a memorandum of understanding with the British Standards Institution on the certification of low-carbon products.

Li Yuan, the deputy director of the Ecological Division of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, has disclosed to local media that China will arrange a CNY1 billion special fund this year for environment protection and pollution control in the rural areas of the country.

News from The First National Drinking Water Source Protection Work Conference held in Shenyang, Liaoning in northeast China that about 20% of the drinking water sources for urban residents in China are not up to national standards and this affects the lives of more than 90 million people.

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has issued two circulars which require environmental labels be adopted for all vehicles.

Chongqing Green Volunteers' League, a Chongqing-based non-governmental organization, has submitted an application of administrative reconsideration in which it criticizes China's Ministry of Environmental Protection for its improper settlement of the Jingshajiang River Hydropower Projects.

Eight Chinese cities and five power plants have been included on the blacklist of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection for their illegal behavior and have been asked to rectify their faults within a given period.

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has decided to suspend the approval of the construction projects China Huaneng Group and China Huadian Corporation as a punishment to the parties' environmental infringement.