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Protesting parents accuse China's top electric vehicle maker BYD of causing air pollution causing nosebleeds and other symptoms in children, while the company, more successful than ever, insists its operations meet environmental standards
By Yang Zhijie and Li Mingzi Updated Aug.1
Changsha BYD Automobile Co in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan Province
China's most successful vehicle and battery maker BYD has come under a storm of scrutiny after people living near one of its plants alleged aerosol emissions were causing symptoms such as nosebleeds, sore throats and headaches, particularly in young children.
On May 6, residents of over a dozen communities near Changsha BYD Automobile Co in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan Province protested outside the factory gates. Some held banners with the slogan "we want good fortune, not bad fumes," while others held photos of children with nosebleeds. The protests continued for three nights.
Media picked up the story on May 7, and the allegations went viral. In response, BYD, which stands for Build Your Dreams, issued a statement on the evening of May 7, asserting that the plant in the city's Yuhua District, which opened in 2012, complied with all emissions laws. The company admitted there might be an issue of unpleasant smells in some residential areas near the plant and had taken measures to improve the situation. But BYD denied claims it was emitting pollution that causes nosebleeds in children and said the rumors were a malicious and groundless attack on the company. BYD added that it called police and would hold those who spread rumors – including local residents – legally accountable.
The Shenzhen-headquartered conglomerate manufactures new energy vehicles, batteries, energy storage, solar panels and is involved in public transit projects overseas. On June 10, BYD's stock price surged by 8 percent on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, making its market capitalization exceed 1 trillion yuan (US$149b), higher than any other Chinese auto brand.
In response to later online rumors that production at BYD Changsha Yuhua District Industrial Park was suspended for rectification, BYD staff told NewsChina that the factory has "only partially cut manufacturing."
Strange Symptoms
"We moved here in January 2020, and my eldest son suffered five nosebleeds. The latest was at the end of April. My younger child gets mouth ulcers almost every month, and me and my other relatives also get mouth ulcers every month and we suffer from frequent dizziness and headaches," Lin Yuwei, who lives in Zhongjian Jiahecheng community near the factory, told NewsChina. She added that the symptoms disappeared when they went on holiday in early May, resumed and got even worse when they returned. An informal survey conducted by and among parents in the vicinity before April 2022 claimed that almost 700 children had experienced nosebleeds for unknown reasons. There is no way to back up these claims.
Yuhua District government officials called an emergency meeting on May 8 to address emissions from the BYD Changsha plant, particularly the automobile painting process. The same afternoon, authorities in Changsha City sent a team to the factory to investigate the complaints. The team included people from government departments, third-party testing institutions and chemical experts.
In response to an inquiry for comment from NewsChina, as of late May, Changsha City Bureau of Ecology and Environment said the investigation was ongoing and the municipal government will disclose the results once concluded.
This spring, Wu Lijia's 8-year-old daughter had three nosebleeds in 40 days. The family lives in the same Zhongjian Jiahecheng community as Lin's family. In mid-April, a teacher from her daughter's school, Shazitang Jiahe Primary School, learned that up to 21 children out of the class of 40 had nosebleeds. A teacher at the school with over 30 years of experience said he had never seen so many children get nosebleeds at the same time.
Chen Zhen, who lives in the nearby Jinghuan Community, told NewsChina that his 6-year-old son who attends Jiatanghe Primary School had nosebleeds twice in the past month. In a WeChat group of some 400 people in the community, parents said over 100 children, mostly preschoolers, had nosebleeds with no apparent cause.
According to Chen Zhen, over 80 percent of the group claimed to have experienced sore throats. Chen's teenage son had swollen lymph nodes in March, and despite taking medication, his sore throat lasted for weeks. Chen said he and his wife had similar symptoms, but when he went away on business, he felt better and his symptoms abated, but his wife at home still had a sore throat.
Like other parents sharing similar experiences, Wu Lijia related the symptoms many claimed to the pungent smell that permeates the neighborhood.
Her family moved to Zhongjian Jiahecheng in 2020, and later that year she noticed a foul odor, which smelled like a mixture of paint and burning. The situation worsened in March. Wu said one of their neighbors bought a handheld air detector to monitor the air quality. The results indicate that total volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air reached 1.015 mg per cubic meter, and sometimes hit 1.898 mg per cubic meter, two or three times the national safety standard of 0.60 mg per cubic meter for ambient air.
VOCs refer to compounds emitted from solids or liquids and turn gaseous, meaning they are lighter than air at room temperature. VOCs are responsible for everyday smells like perfume and cleaning chemicals. They have natural sources – 90 percent of VOCs are produced by plants, animals and microorganisms. Other VOCs are artificial or anthropogenic, and include an array of chemical products, including glue and paint. They can be emitted from new furniture, carpets and scented candles, as well as cooking and frying processes.
Community members allege the source of the pungent odor is the BYD factory. Sun Hun from Zhongjian Jiahecheng Community told NewsChina that it sits to the north of the BYD factory, and the paint and glue smell is extremely strong in spring, when southerly winds blow.
Residences and schools surround the BYD factory. According to the Environmental Impact Report for BYD Changsha's Stamping, Welding and Painting Technical Renovation Project compiled by Changsha Non-ferrous Metallurgy Design and Research Institute in 2021, there are 13 residential areas and six schools that should be covered by the 19 "air environment" protection targets in the report.
According to the environmental impact assessment (EIA) report, the approval required the painting workshop boundary to be 400 meters away from any new environmentally sensitive buildings such as homes and schools. However, the factory is only 40 meters from the west side of Jinghuan Community.
"The BYD painting production line releases toxic gases at night, generally around 10:30 pm," said an online complaint on the Hunan online political inquiry platform. Since April, online complaints multiplied. Comments included: "The pungent smell permeates the whole community, and we could not open the window," "The smell which is like burning tires or glue is very uncomfortable, disgusting and makes people feel nauseous and dizzy," "The lives and health of hundreds of thousands of residents in the surrounding residential compounds are thus threatened," and "We'd like to hope relevant departments could find the source of the odor."
Jinghuan Community was approved by Changsha municipal government in 2006, and Shazitang Jiahe Primary School opened in 2001, both much earlier than the BYD Changsha project. Homeowners in Zhongjian Jiahecheng moved in at the end of 2018, well after the plant started operating.
Already by 2016 there were complaints from residents who said there was a pungent smell at night. In 2018, a central government team went to Hunan Province to review environmental protection. During the visit, hundreds of residents from Jinghuan Community filed complaints about alleged emissions of hazardous waste gas from the BYD plant. The company promised to stop production and move the foundry. The smell that had plagued residents disappeared. "Yet after just six months, a different stinky smell came again and it continues right up to now," a Jinghuan Community resident told the reporter. Residents point the finger at the paint workshop.
Up to Standard?
According to the 2021 EIA report, the original project did not treat VOCs before they were discharged. Therefore, when southeasterly winds blow in summer it affects downwind residential areas, especially residents of Jinghuan Community which is close to the paint workshop.
An engineer who worked on the Changsha BYD EIA report told NewsChina on condition of anonymity that EIA reports are all predictive, and only on-site test results can tell whether the requirements are fully met.
A manager who has more than 20 years of experience in running a car plant explained that of the four major processes involved in vehicle manufacturing – stamping metal to create components, welding, painting and final assembly – painting is the most complex, generating more toxic gases and posing more harm to humans. The paint process involves cleaning, applying undercoat and then a topcoat, as well as drying after each stage.
VOCs can irritate the eyes, nose, skin and throat. The organic solvent xylene used in painting, for example, can cause irritation to the eyes and upper respiratory tract, and have anesthetic effects on the central nervous system at high concentrations.
Automobile paint workshops are automated, but workers still need to supervise the processes. Workers entering the workshop must wear respirators and protective clothing and footwear.
"The equipment needed to meet the waste discharge standards for a plant with a daily capacity of 400-800 units can cost tens of millions of yuan. If you add in the costs of treatment for sewage and chemicals, labor, machinery operations and energy consumption, total costs will be in the hundreds of millions of yuan," the anonymous manager said. In addition, the environmental treatment equipment is replaced along with the coating equipment once every 7-9 years. Even more important is correct operation of the equipment. Incineration equipment to deal with VOC emissions and water rotation treatment consume large amounts of power, and the activated carbon emissions filters must be replaced monthly.
"If production is stopped, testing results can easily meet the required standards, but when production starts again, whether emissions can meet the standard depends on the morals of the enterprise," the manager said.
On April 29, local communities organized a meeting involving BYD, an occupational disease hospital, the EIA agency and community representatives. BYD's representatives apologized for causing an unpleasant odor during production but insisted that tests showed emissions met Chinese standards.
At the end of April, Changsha BYD posted an environmental test report conducted in March in Jiahecheng Community showing that factory emissions met the standards. The results of three tests of 24 types of VOC concentrations were lower than the standard limit.
An online response from BYD on May 8 to a public complaint from Hunan Ecology and Environment Department, a government body, showed that while there was a pungent odor from BYD's plant, repeated monitoring of the factory indicated the discharges were up to standard.
However, residents from Jiahecheng Community did not trust the test results. They questioned whether the tests were done in the early morning when the smell is strongest and if the actual emission concentration is higher than the amount allowed on BYD's pollutant discharge permit.
Residents have called to reveal what the standard is on BYD's permit and demanded new environmental tests. They attempted to find a third-party test institution but have not yet found one.
Difficult to Prove
"Even for a third-party testing institution, it is difficult to get an effective sample," an EIA engineer told NewsChina under condition of anonymity. Almost all waste gases produced by industry are discharged from exhaust outlets. Without the factory's consent, it is difficult for a third-party institution to get samples. Atmospheric samples collected from the surrounding environment need to exclude exhaust gases produced by other nearby factories, which is technically difficult.
Ma Yong, deputy secretary-general of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation said this issue is a typical environmental infringement case. According to Ma, the foundation's legal team has applied to the government for information disclosure and is awaiting reply.
Ma learned residents are still waiting for official approval to investigate the alleged pollution, so it is too early to file a public interest suit. Once a lawsuit is filed, it is difficult to gather evidence. Pollutant identification, loss assessment, causality identification and other work are highly professional and technical. Compared with water and soil pollution, damage from air pollution is much more difficult to prove. "How can you prove the factory emits pollutants, and how can you prove that the physical damage comes from the pollution?" Ma said.
However, in an environmental infringement case, emission compliance is not a necessary condition to exempt the defendant from civil liability. In order to protect the rights and interests of vulnerable groups, an important principle of environmental litigation is shifting the burden of proof to the defendant. Therefore, if the court supports this rule, it will put BYD under great pressure, Ma said.
The plaintiff only needs to present proof of pollution and physical damage, as well as correlation between the two. The defendant must do everything possible to prove there is no connection. Yet Ma also said that such litigation can be a marathon-like process. "People don't file lawsuits unless they have to," Ma told NewsChina.
"Legally speaking, public interest litigation and civil litigation are complementary. If public interest litigation wins with a valid court decision, residents can use this as evidence to protect their rights and interests," Ma said.
Despite the dampening effects of rolling Covid lockdowns across China's major cities and manufacturing centers in April and May, BYD has posted impressive sales figures for its new energy vehicles (NEV), surpassing global sales for Tesla. On June 2, BYD announced May sales of 114,943 up from 32,800 a year earlier, and in the first five months, it posted sales 507,314 units, a huge year-on-year rise of 348 percent.
Since 2012, BYD invested over 10.7 billion yuan (US$1.6b) in its Changsha operation. In January and February 2022, the project in Yuhua District produced and sold 39,000 vehicles, up by 373.8 percent year-on-year. A new production base was scheduled to be put into operation in May, which would make BYD Changsha the firm's largest manufacturing base with the most models, largest capacity and full supply chain.
So far, BYD has not responded to the allegations. Addressing a potential plan to move the paint workshops from the first phase of the project to the second phase plant, an employee from BYD told the reporter in May that "it is possible, but there is no final decision yet."
An air quality monitor used by residents near Changsha BYD Automobile Co shows the level of TOVCs (Total Volatile Organic Compounds) far surpasses the national safety standard of 0.60mg/m³
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Scare The Dickens Out of Us, 2011
November 25, 2011 December 18, 2011 / Clint Smith	/ Leave a comment
"Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?"
"The truth is, that he tried to be smart, as a means of distracting his own attention, and keeping down his terror; for the spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow of his bones."
—A Christmas Carol, Stave I, "Marley's Ghost"
A little over a year ago, I had an idea for a ghost story. This was around Halloween, several weeks after the birth of my daughter, Everly, in September, 2010. After driving Jack down to the bus stop one overcast, October morning, I had in mind a vivid scenario: Autumn. Night. Clouds, like shreds of moth-eaten cloth, overlapping a fingernail moon. A boy (I didn't really know what age, I saw him as being seven, maybe eight years old) standing next to his father (or stepdad) in a weed-spiked yard near a black and abandoned farmhouse. Without warning—and to the father's slow-reacting horror—the boy bolts forward, running across the overgrown lot, rushing headlong toward the looming, decaying structure.
That was it, really. The germ of an idea—"the fragments of reality," Dickens wrote of his dreams, "I…collect which helped to make it up." I had a narrative notion about where the tale would begin, but I really didn't know how it would end. And although I scribbled a satisfying conclusion later that winter, I had no idea about what to do with the story. It seemed too understated and "serious" to pursue hardcore horror markets, and too darkly fantastic for the scrupulous eyes of literary publications. I was lost and a little uneasy about how the story's story would end.
Until yesterday.
I'm happy to announce that my short story, "Dirt on Vicky," is the first-place winner of the 2011 "Scare The Dickens Out of Us" ghost story competition. An official announcement will be made by contest coordinators, Gretchen Rix and Roxanne Rix, next weekend at "A Dickens Christmas in Lockhart" festival. The story will then be read at a public party at the Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart, Texas, on January 21, 2012.
In addition to a monetary prize, I'll also receive a trophy. Not too shabby.
I'll have more news about what's next for this story. In the meantime, I'd like to recommend some of my all-time favorite horror stories—some horror, some ghost yarns, a few quiet classics. But all guaranteed to be bone-chilling reading for a spooky winter's evening.
"The River Styx Runs Upstream"; "Iverson's Pits"; Summer of Night; A Winter Haunting; and Drood by Dan Simmons
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
"The Ghostly Rental"; "The Jolly Corner"; and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
"Young Goodman Brown" and "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Best New Horror"; "The Black Telephone"; "20th Century Ghost"; and Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
"The Bees" by Dan Chaon
"The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen
They Thirst by Robert McCammon
"N." by Stephen King
"The Whisperer in the Darkness" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by HP Lovecraft
"Canavan's Back Yard" by Joseph Payne Brennan
As always, dear reader, thank you for your camaraderie and support.
When time allows, drop by the Paper Nautilus website, or check out their Facebook page. It looks like you can pick up the inaugural hardcopy issue for $8 (or 2 for $15). My short story "Mistletoe" (a 2009 AWP selection) is included in this 2011 installment. Here's an excerpt from editor Lisa Magini:
"Paper Nautilus was born out of a desire to support other writers. This might just be me, but I feel like writers often get mixed messages: eReading devices are marketed as the perfect gift, when the arts—literature included—are often hit the hardest by school budget cuts; there's this pervasive echo that seems to insist that 'nobody reads anymore' or 'literature doesn't matter,' and it's still exceedingly difficult for many writers to place their work. While Paper Nautilus is competitive—we received nearly 400 submissions in six months—we're proud to showcase a wide variety of contributors, ranging from those published in The New Yorker to those whose very first publications are featured on the pages that follow."

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Last year's Decemba 2 Rememba Concert which was organized by Citi FM saw Ekiki mi hitmaker, Wisa Gried did one shocking thing.
Well, during the performance of his 'Slow motion' song, Wisa pulled down his jeans showing off his boxer shots, and then took off his 'gorgormi-like' office pin manhood and then started grinding his female dancer.
Many were surprised by what he did, and a year down the lane, Wisa in an interview on Viasat One TV disclosed that indeed, what he did at Decemba 2 Rememba concert was a publicity stunt gone wrong.
When asked about the whole incident, he said, "I don't want to talk about this again but what happened at D2R was a publicly stunt gone wrong. I never knew it would have gone that far and even to court and more".
He, however, added that it made people to talk about him, thereby making him more popular. "But it helped me, it made people talk about me and it helped in the popularity bit too." Wisa said.


I really enjoyed Dan Ariely's last two books, so I decided to read his latest which just recently came out, Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles. This one was a very short, fun read made up of Dan's answers to reader questions in his weekly Wall Street Journal column. It was a good mix of behavioral economics/psychology combined with a nice dose of his Jewish sense of humor. I most enjoyed his discussions of memory and deception as well as his suggestions to use more rules to curtail temptations and keep you disciplined.
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Cancel elation: would u feel happy if it got canceled?
I just finished reading Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond, and I must admit it was quite a slog. The book is long, detailed, and not too entertaining.
It was recommended by Charles Munger in his Almanack, and I had heard about it many times before. The book's core question is indeed an interesting one: Why did some countries and societies develop so much more than others, conquering others and creating better life for their people? Is it due to racial differences or something else?
The book is #1 on Amazon in the category of "geography," and I think that was part of the slog of reading it; the extremely detailed info on the history, environment, and topography of all the different parts of the Earth was just less compelling to read as so many of the sub-points and background were not well connected to the main question in the book. The most interesting parts for me were the beginning and the end, which basically answer the question by saying that the differing environments and natural resources of the continents as well as the different societal organizational structures contributed to different levels of diffusion, migration, and technology development that allowed some societies to prosper more than others.
I did enjoy the discussion of how languages built on top of one another and how writing systems played a big role in societal development. It was obvious to me from the start how guns and steel would be useful for societies, but all the stuff about germs, food production, and animal domestication was a lot less obvious to from the start and was interesting to learn (though way too detailed and at times off topic for my taste).
Below are some of my notes and takeaways from the different chapters. If you really love history and geography as well as archaeology or the science of researching the past, this book is a good one for you. If not, I wouldn't recommend it.
Why did wealth and power become distributed as they are now?


How should I use the CDL templates?
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GreenLight brings Hollywood's memorable wheels to collectors
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Ok … these specialty toys aren't exactly new — they've been going since roughly 2011 — but there have been as many as 15 series so far and Walter Sobchak's van was among them and that's enough that Buzz needed to take a look.
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Upper Deck Authenticated offers Evangeline Lilly autographs
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A star from a few television and movie franchises has signed with Upper Deck Authenticated.
Evangeline Lilly, who has appeared in Lost, Ant-Man and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, has signed nine different photos and posters as part of the initial offering in the collection.
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Gallery: Pop culture icons plentiful in this week's Profiles in History sale
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Marty McFly's Hoverboard. The Beatles' controversial butcher album cover. Superman's cape. Bettie Page's pumps. Steve McQueen's racing jacket. Wolverine's claws. The Death Star.
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I guess this is how you hide a massive merger with insane layoffs, you go "Hey! What if Cyclops met Black Panther's sister Shuri?! You kids would love that, right!?" And indeed, you would, because the X-Men are headed to the Cinematic Marvel Universe, under the vision of current MCU super producer Kevin Feige. Kevin Feige, as many know, got his Marvel producer start with the original X-Men franchise at the turn of the millennium before transitioning to the Disney owned MCU. Now, due to a deal with Fox that is no doubt a result of the merger, and similar to the one with Sony that brought Spider-Man to the cinematic universe, where Sony shares the rights and gets to do some of its own thing, the X-Men will indeed be transitioning to the MCU, with a new Wolverine in tow.
Hugh "The Worm" Jackman. Lovely.
This change means that the X-Men brand and its successful and beloved franchises — including Deadpool and its upcoming (maybe not?) spin-off X-Force are now under the Disney brand. Will Disney allow the movie to live on parallel to the Marvel Universe, like they did with the talked about Venom and the Academy Award nominated Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse? I mean, I hope so. I love Deadpool. Give me more Deadpool, you cowards!
What do you think of the upcoming cross-over? Let us know in the comments or on Twitter at @WhatsTrending.