China: Data About Soil Pollution a ‘State Secret’

March 11th, 2013

Don’t worry, they’re just a few Five-Year-Plans away from having the clean, green farmscrapers up and running.

Via: Reuters:

When China’s environment ministry told attorney Dong Zhengwei he couldn’t have access to two-year old data about soil pollution because it was a “state secret”, it added to mounting public outrage over the worsening environment.

Microbloggers, state media and even delegates to this week’s session of the National People’s Congress, the largely rubber-stamp parliament, were already critical of the government for poor air and water quality. Now they are also expressing disquiet over the scarcity of information about the environment available to them.

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