You may have read about the water contamination case in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. If not, Greenlaw and New Energy and Environment Digest (NEED) have good summaries. NEED states that
An estimated one million of the city’s 1.5 million residents were left without water due to what government identified as the presence of two variants of carbolic [...]
Entries Tagged as 'environmental crimes'
A New Era of Environmental Crimes in China?
August 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: enforcement · environmental crimes · environmental enforcement · environmental policy · penalties · water pollution
Smelter Smackdown
August 12th, 2009 · 4 Comments
I am not going to write anything today because you must read this article from Caijing Magazine: Heavy Metal Warfare. It covers the smelting industry along the Xiang river in Hunan province 1 the , and in the process provides a telling picture of the challenges faced by Chinese environmental regulators across the vast rural [...]
Tags: air pollution · environmental crimes · environmental enforcement · environmental policy · public disclosure · public protests · rural pollution · water pollution
A New Environmental Enforcement Unit?
December 18th, 2008 · No Comments
My friend and fellow environmental lawyer, Dayton Carpenter, forwarded me an article that says nothing about, yet speaks volumes, regarding the state of environmental enforcement in China.
Last month in Chongqing, 100+ police investigated 873 suspects over 10 days before issuing warrants for the arrest of two people. Chongqing’s top communist official, Bo Xilai, “a rising political star [...]
Tags: Bo Xilai · environmental crimes · environmental enforcement