Chinanews.com, Beijing, February 24th. Recently, Huang Runqiu, minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, went to Pingdingshan City and Xuchang City in Henan Province to conduct a surprise inspection. The inspection found that many companies had excessive emissions, falsified production accounts, online monitoring and manual monitoring. Data falsification and other violations of laws and regulations.
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Minister personally raids, discovers falsification
Since the end of 2022, there has been a long-term and large-scale "New Year's Eve haze" in southern Henan Province, and severe and severely polluted weather has continued to occur in many areas.
In view of the local air pollution control situation, from February 20th to 21st, Huang Runqiu, Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, went to Pingdingshan City and Xuchang City, Henan Province to implement the "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law" in key industries such as coking, steel, and glass, and enforce the law of heavily polluted weather. Conduct surprise inspections on emergency emission reduction measures.
The WeChat public account of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment showed that Huang Runqiu and his party rushed from Beijing to Pingdingshan City and Xuchang City, Henan Province in the early morning of the 20th, and led the supervision and support team to carry out surprise inspections on 7 companies, and carefully checked and checked the production accounts of the companies on the spot. , production conditions, online monitoring, etc.
The inspection found that enterprises generally have illegal operation of pollution control facilities, excessive emissions, failure to implement emergency emission reduction measures for heavily polluted weather, falsification of production accounts, online monitoring and manual monitoring data falsification, among which 6 enterprises have serious problems .
Companies named by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment include Ruzhou Tianrui Coal Coking Co., Ltd., Henan Pingmei Shenma Jingbao Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., Wugang Zhongjia Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., and Wugang New Hope Ironmaking Co., Ltd. Company, Xuchang Xiangcheng County Huaxin Industrial Co., Ltd.
In addition to long-term excessive emissions, the problems of these enterprises are suspected of artificially interfering with the sampling of online monitoring facilities, falsifying sintering production reports, tampering with the operating parameters of the central control system, and falsifying false production records called "environmental protection ledgers".
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"The impact is bad, it violates the criminal law, and it must be resolutely cracked down"
According to the introduction of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, during the inspection, Huang Runqiu said that we must adhere to the problem-oriented approach, dare to touch the hard truth, and resolutely investigate and deal with environmental violations in accordance with the law with a "zero tolerance" attitude, especially the collusion between enterprises and third-party monitoring companies, forgery and tampering Issues such as monitoring data are serious in nature, have a bad impact, and violate the criminal law. They must be resolutely cracked down and give full play to their warning function.
He also mentioned that enterprises should really pay attention to the protection of the ecological environment from an ideological point of view, regard law-abiding as the bottom line for the survival and development of enterprises, continuously enhance their sense of social responsibility and mission, and must not ignore the needs of ordinary people for a beautiful ecological environment and blindly pursue pollution. To ensure the economic benefits, effectively shoulder the main responsibility for air pollution control, strengthen the operation and management of pollution control facilities, and ensure that the discharge of pollutants meets the standards.
As for the local eco-environmental departments to earnestly fulfill their supervisory responsibilities, he also requested that the supervision and law enforcement be strengthened, the ability to identify and discover problems, especially deep-rooted problems such as fabricated data and falsified data, be further improved, and the investigation of environmental law-breaking enterprises be carried out seriously. The investigation and evidence collection work, do a good job in the "second half of the article" of rectification.
It is worth mentioning that two years ago, on March 11, 2021, Huang Runqiu also had a surprise inspection of "going straight to the scene without saying hello". The inspections were carried out on the implementation of the anti-drainage measures. The problems discovered at that time included high-load production during the emergency response period of heavily polluted weather, falsification of production records, and some even tipped off each other and deleted production records in response to inspections.
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Relevant responsible persons were detained, and the two places expressed their seriousness in pursuing accountability
In response to the above surprise inspections, Pingdingshan City and Xuchang City in Henan Province respectively deployed rectification measures.
The "Pingdingshan Release" WeChat public account issued a notice in the early morning of the 23rd, and under the guidance of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the provincial department's assistance working group, a joint investigation team and a special work team at the city and county levels have been established to carry out resident inspections for enterprises with problems. Point of help, deep digging and careful investigation of existing problems, all rectification within a limited time.
According to the report, at present, the relevant responsible persons have been criminally or administratively detained in accordance with the law.
At the same time, learn lessons deeply, draw inferences from one instance, carry out large-scale investigations and major rectifications throughout the city, and urge all departments and enterprises at all levels to strictly implement territorial responsibilities, regulatory responsibilities, and main responsibilities.
According to a report from "Xuchang Daily" on the 23rd, on the 22nd, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a meeting to promote the rectification of problems found in air quality supervision and assistance. File a case and punish it severely according to the law and regulations; for the dereliction of duty and malfeasance of public officials, they will be strictly held accountable and the results of the handling will be notified in a timely manner.
In addition, the local government requires strict law enforcement and supervision of emission companies, regular unannounced visits and supervision, law enforcement in different places, and strict investigation and punishment of illegal discharge behaviors of key enterprises; strict supervision and management of third-party environmental monitoring agencies, and investigation and punishment of fraudulent behavior.
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