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Article

22 Jul 2003

Author:
Associated Press

World Bank group meets to clean up Asia's deadly air

Delegates from the oil industry and a World Bank-funded environmental group [The Clean Air Initiative — a World Bank and Asian Development Bank-linked organization] met for the first time Monday to discuss measures to clean up heavily polluted Asian cities, where air pollution kills over 500,000 people every year...Among companies attending the meeting were ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum and ChevronTexaco.