China to crack down on green subsidy fraud by power plants


  • World
  • Tuesday, 07 Jan 2014

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has urged local government and environmental officials to crack down on power producers who fraudulently claim subsidies for cutting emissions, the country's top economic planner said on Tuesday.

Beijing has established a wide array of laws and rules to battle the environmental consequences of three decades of unchecked growth, but weak monitoring and negligible punishment make it tough to get powerful industrial interests to comply.

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