China Environmental Law

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 [...]

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The Ministry of Environmental Protection has issued a Notice (Chinese only version here; accompanying Q&A here) which sets forth a regulatory opinion on the imposition of administrative punishment in environmental cases.
The Opinion reiterates some basic points, includes some significant new interpretations, and generally provides a welcome clarification of many of the issues surrounding the imposition [...]

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