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Cross-border push urged on pollution

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Green groups want to narrow the differences in environmental standards between the SAR and the mainland.

Mr Tung said co-operation with the Guangdong authorities would be strengthened through a new joint working group on sustainable development and environmental protection.

Air pollution in Hong Kong is believed to be aggravated by cross-border trucks filling up with the mainland's lower standard diesel, which is high in sulphur dioxide content.

Friends of the Earth assistant director Plato Yip Kwong-to said a common standard should be established to minimise cross-border pollution.

'Even if we can't have a common standard quickly, we should gradually narrow the gap,' Mr Yip said.

But Green Power executive director Man Chi-sum said that the mainland would find it hard and too expensive to upgrade standards quickly.

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