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Article

11 Sep 2006

Author:
Sam Bond, Environmental Data Interactive

China ups tempo on pollution prosecutions

...SEPA [State Environmental Protection Administration]...announced it had begun investigations into what...Xinhua called six of the country's 'most notorious polluters'...They included the Changbaishan Jingxi Chemical Company which dumped…petrol-blending chemical xylidine in a tributary of the Songhua [River]...Other facilities on SEPA's hit list include the Harbin Gasification Factory which...has been pumping out heavily polluted wastewater...since [1992]...Jinmao Papermaking Ltd in Langfang in north China's Hebei Province…failed to pass an EIA [Environmental Impact Assessment] as it lacked a sewage treatment facility but…it started operations anyway...Serious pollution incidents...still [happen] almost daily...[O]ver 100,000 residents of Yueyang City in central China were warned not to drink tap water after…it was contaminated with…an arsenic-based industrial pollutant...[T]he factory responsible for the leak was shut down.