More public participation and increased liability placed on polluters are the highlights of the revised Environmental Protection Law, adopted by the country's top legislature on Thursday.

Study strongly advocates legislation to prevent children’s entry into the sector.

Amendments to China's 1989 environmental protection law that will mean stiffer punishments for polluters have been submitted to the country's parliament for deliberation, official news agency Xinhu

BEIJING: Faced with growing public anger about a poisonous environment, China's government released a years-long study that shows nearly one-fifth of the country's farmland is contaminated with tox

Amendments to China's 1989 Environmental Protection Law are expected to be finalised later this year

Smog-hit China is set to pass a new law that would give Beijing more powers to shut polluting factories and punish officials, and even place protected regions off-limits to industrial development, scholars with knowledge of the situation said.

Smog-hit China is set to pass a new law that would give Beijing more powers to shut polluting factories and punish officials, and even place protected regions off-limits to industrial development,