Hebei coal heating ban exposes flaws of campaign-style policymaking
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Villagers in rural Hebei province are shivering through the winter so Beijing can have blue skies. What happened: The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Jing-Jin-Ji) region banned coal for home heating in 2017 as part of a nationwide campaign to curb air pollution. Rural households were ordered to switch to gas...