China’s environmental regulators on Thursday unveiled stricter emergency pollution controls for the Olympic Games that would shutter more factories and expand traffic restrictions if air quality failed to meet approved standards once the competition began next week.
The measures, posted on the Web site of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, would be invoked during the Games only in the case of “extremely unfavorable weather conditions” — for example, hot, humid air without wind to disperse pollution.
The plan would broaden existing temporary restrictions in Beijing and also include the nearby municipality of Tianjin, as well as surrounding Hebei Province. In all, the new measures would encompass a region of more than 91 million people.
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