Amending China's Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law - Recommendations from the International Experience (Jul. 2009)  

In November 2008, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) invited a number of U.S. air pollution experts to a workshop in Beijing to discuss the proposed amendment of China’s Atmospheric Pollution Prevention and Control Law (Air Pollution Law) and lessons that might be learned from the U.S. air pollution regulatory system, the 1970 U.S. Clean Air Act and the Clean Air Act’s subsequent amendments (CAA). China’s Air Pollution Law has not been amended since 2000, and many provisions of the Air Pollution Law need to be amended to respond to the demands presented by a China that has changed dramatically in the span of less than ten years.