--FILE--touristes foule la place Tian'anmen pour assister à la cérémonie de lever de drapeau dans le smog lourde à Beijing, Chine, 1 janvier 2017. Pékin a déposé 13,1
--FILE--Tourists crowd the Tian'anmen Square to attend the flag-raising ceremony in heavy smog in Beijing, China, 1 January 2017. Beijing filed 13, 127 environmental protection violation cases in 2016, with fines totaling 150 million yuan (US$21.8 million), local environmental authorities said on Wednesday (11 January 2017). A total of 10, 184 cases, involving fines of 8.7 million yuan, were due to pollution from mobile emission sources. Of these, more than 10, 000 vehicles were punished for excessive exhaust emissions. Fines totaling 142 million yuan, involving 2, 943 cases, were issued for fixed pollution emission sources. Nearly half of these violations were reported for air pollution. Beijing authorities carried out a series of measures to tackle air pollution in 2016, such as cutting coal consumption, ordering construction sites to reduce dust, and removing high-polluting vehicles from roads. In the capital, air pollution indicators have registered steady annual declines. In 2016 PM2.5 levels fell 9.9 percent from the previous year.
