The movement of direct action campaigns for the environment in China, whose mantra of "public participation" was popular just a few years ago when Premier Wen Jiabao personally blocked plans to dam China's last free flowing river, may be on the decline as activists face an increasingly hostile political climate, according to an article in Yale's online environment journal. Online talk of political reform after North African uprisings caused the government to react swiftly, placing at least 200 activists and lawyers under house arrest, and two lawyers in Beijing who routinely took environmental cases said that they were worried about having their licenses renewed. As civil society is increasingly limited by government, environmental groups have seen a "glass ceiling" in terms of gaining influence: "If you become too big, the government will be worried and will try to stop you. That is why there are many small groups, but few big trees in China’s environmental movement," said Wen Bo, an activist in Beijing. Additionally, in 2010 China announced that the nation's NGOs would need to have grants from foreign foundations notarized by local officials, a potentially paralyzing move as groups operating on a small budget fear the potential for delayed or canceled funding. Meanwhile, a report by Greenpeace claimed that some of the world's largest clothing brands use Chinese suppliers that pollute rivers with toxic chemicals, a practice Greenpeace said was made easier by the fact that China has yet to implement a systematic chemical management policy. For the full story on limits to China's environmental movement, see http://e360.yale.edu/feature/green_activists_feel_sting_of_chinese_government_crackdown/2421/. For the full story on the Greenpeace report, see http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/us-chinapollution-greenpeace-idUSTRE76C5I420110713.