Beijing fines polluting firms US$2.3m
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AUTHORITIES in Beijing fined 652 industrial plants for breaching environmental regulations in the first four months of the year as they increased efforts to fight pollution.
Air quality in the nation’s capital has come under intense scrutiny since January of last year, when a heavy smog settled over the city to the alarm of residents.
Premier Li Keqiang in March promised a “war on pollution” as the country seeks to wean the economy off energy-guzzling heavy industry.
The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau handed out fines totaling 14.5 million yuan (US$2.3 million) in the year through April.
“The amount is twice as high as for the same period last year,” said Zhong Chonglei, chief officer at the bureau’s supervision department.
In recent years the government has introduced a range of policies to tackle environmental issues but it has struggled to bring polluting industries and growth-obsessed local authorities to heel.
In March, Beijing for the first time took charge of supervising its pollution levels. The city can hand out fines of up to 500,000 yuan and can impose additional daily fines on wrongdoers who fail to pay up on time.
About three-quarters of the fines handed out this year were for air pollution.
Beijing Yueju Heating Co received the biggest fine of 200,000 yuan for manipulating emissions data for one of its coal-fired boilers.
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