Polluters now have to pay cleanup costs
China Daily | Updated: 2018-09-04 07:32
TWO SENIOR EXECUTIVES of a polluting enterprise in Jinzhou, North China's Hebei province, were recently sentenced to prison and ordered to pay 1.08 million yuan ($158,100) in compensation to the local environmental protection bureau to cover the cleanup costs. Beijing News comments:
Not long before, the Jiangsu provincial court had sentenced a polluting enterprise in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, and ordered it to pay the local government 55.14 million yuan for ecological and environmental restoration.
The two trials show the previous practice of local governments covering the cost of pollution will be history from now on.
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