China Completes 'Pollution Census'
With more than a billion people, taking a regular census in China is a certainly challenge, but now the world's top carbon emitter says it has completed its first "pollution census."
China's vice minister of environmental protection says the country has mapped more than 5 million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste throughout the country.
It will use the information in its next five-year environmental plan.
But the information isn't being made public just yet. Officials say that will happen in the future, but no date was given.
Environmental groups, including Greenpeace China, are urging the government to get that information out as soon as possible.
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