South China Morning Post has reported that China’s Minister of Ecology & Environment Mr Huang Runqiu during two day visit of Henan Province singled out several state owned Chinese energy and steel companies for breaking pollution rules. During their inspection, Mr Huang and his team discovered widespread non-compliance and illegal practices among companies that had violated anti-pollution rules and added to the severe air pollution in the province.The violations included abnormal operation of pollution control facilities, exceeded emission standards, failure to implement emergency pollution control measures, falsified production records, and falsified online and manual monitoring data.As per report steelmaker Wugang Zhongjia failed to implement emergency measures during a period of heavy pollution and falsified its production reports another steel company discharged waste gas above legal limits.Henan province is home to the most coal and steel companies in China. According to the data from the environment ministry, nine out of the 20 most polluted cities in the country are in Henan province.
South China Morning Post has reported that China’s Minister of Ecology & Environment Mr Huang Runqiu during two day visit of Henan Province singled out several state owned Chinese energy and steel companies for breaking pollution rules. During their inspection, Mr Huang and his team discovered widespread non-compliance and illegal practices among companies that had violated anti-pollution rules and added to the severe air pollution in the province.The violations included abnormal operation of pollution control facilities, exceeded emission standards, failure to implement emergency pollution control measures, falsified production records, and falsified online and manual monitoring data.As per report steelmaker Wugang Zhongjia failed to implement emergency measures during a period of heavy pollution and falsified its production reports another steel company discharged waste gas above legal limits.Henan province is home to the most coal and steel companies in China. According to the data from the environment ministry, nine out of the 20 most polluted cities in the country are in Henan province.
