China air pollution map pollution map

A major factor of air pollution in China is coal consumption. Air pollution in China has become one of the most serious environmental problems. For example, inhalable particulate matter exists in many areas of Chinese mainland, which is very common in the north. Sulfur dioxide pollution is also a major and serious pollution, and dust pollution in northwest China is very serious. Particles in the north often form a wide range of haze weather. In the south, because the soil is acidic, the emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are also large, and the area where acid rain forms almost affects the whole country 1/3.

Therefore, after the "China Water Pollution Map" was produced and launched in 2006 (about 654.38+00000 enterprises have joined at present, see China Economic Report for details, 654.38+00 month in 2006), we launched the "China Air Pollution Map" at the end of 2007, and will continue to supplement and improve it. This non-governmental environmental protection organization has published the website "China Water Pollution Map", and thousands of enterprises that pollute the water environment are on the list. This website, called "Pollution Control Network Map" by the media, "entangled" a large number of well-known enterprises. Some well-known enterprises that constantly flaunt their "responsibilities" are blacked out by their own pollution behavior here.

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Ma Jun, the map producer and head of the Center for Public and Environmental Studies, said that the "China Air Pollution Map" is a public welfare database. In the first stage, people can click on the digital map to retrieve the air quality information, pollution emission information and pollution source information of 15 southern provincial administrative regions and 150 prefecture-level administrative regions, including the information of enterprises and thermal power plants that exceed the standard.

Ma Jun said that in the future, environmental quality information in the northern region will be gradually increased. By then, ordinary people can know where the air quality of their city ranks in the country with just a little ranking.

In addition to ranking air quality, the website "China Air Pollution Map" will also focus on enterprises with excessive emissions. The database lists more than 4,000 polluting enterprises, including many large enterprises and some multinational companies.

For example, the investor of Hainan Jinhai Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. is APP Group, and the reason for "being on the list" is that the number and duration of odor emission are on the rise, which has caused certain social impact. On March 23rd, 2006 17 and 23rd, the environmental protection department made two special inspections on the company's pulp and paper mill, and fined 50,000 yuan. Shanghai BASF Polyurethane Co., Ltd. was mentioned because the benzene chloride recovery tower of TDI plant of Shanghai BASF Polyurethane Co., Ltd. leaked on June 8, 2007 18: 35.

Su Nan of the Center for Public and Environmental Studies told reporters that in the "China Water Pollution Map" website, the illegal information of enterprises is the most concerned by the public.

Ma Jun said that the information of these polluting enterprises comes from the information of polluting enterprises published by environmental protection systems at all levels or government departments on the one hand, and from media reports on government information on the other hand. Whether it is a water pollution map or an air pollution map, they will update their database according to the information released by the environmental protection department one after another. All this information comes from the government, but it is scattered in various channels. In fact, non-governmental environmental protection organizations draw these two maps to facilitate the public to quickly find information related to water pollution and air pollution.

The water pollution map has attracted the wind of pleading.

As soon as the water pollution map was published, the mediator found the door. A person in charge of the grass-roots environmental protection bureau came to the door and said, you have erased the information of our local enterprises from the Internet. After all, people are our big profits and taxes, raising more than 6,000 employees. In addition, the rectification has been completed.

Ma Jun's reply is that our website is responsible for recording. As long as this enterprise has been punished by the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental violations, we will not erase it. If the enterprise really improves, the environmental protection department can announce the news of rectification and the website will adopt it, but how to treat this information is the public's choice.

Ma Jun refused the request of the local environmental protection department, but he was satisfied with the company's subsequent practice. Finally, the company found a third party to review its pollution control and proved that it did take action.

Over the past year or so since the water pollution map was released, there have been more than 1000 illegal information about enterprises' environment, but only dozens of enterprises have come to explain the situation, indicating that they need to be rectified or have been rectified. What makes Ma Jun feel most sorry is that all the responding enterprises are multinational companies, while domestic enterprises seem to be slow to respond.

Also concerned about this pollution map are the embassies of the countries where these multinational companies are located. Ma Jun said that the embassies of Britain, Denmark and other countries have expressed concern about this matter and are also urging these enterprises to rectify.

The news also spread abroad. A small multinational company also approached Ma Jun and said that they had rectified it. I hope Ma Jun and others can give an explanation. The company suddenly announced the suspension of loan cooperation after the local loan bank saw the pollution map, unless the relevant departments can prove that the pollution problem has been eliminated.

Speaking of Fuan Textile, many people may not be familiar with it, but its downstream buyers are internationally renowned manufacturers, such as Nike and GAP. After the water pollution map was released, the reporter of the Wall Street Journal made a survey and asked these big manufacturers: Do you know that your upstream suppliers used to secretly discharge thousands of tons of wastewater every day? Only Nike said that they asked Fuan Textile to provide the test report of the discharged water sample, and others didn't know.

Ma Jun said that it is more important for him and his colleagues to make this website so that the public can resist using the products of those heavily polluting enterprises. In addition, as a responsible enterprise, we should also refuse to let big polluters become our partners.

The information of many illegal enterprises is still dusty. In addition to door-to-door intercession, there is also a report. Several pollution victims in Hubei found Ma Jun, hoping that he could help find a way to solve the problem of a local enterprise's wanton sewage discharge.

At first, Ma Jun was puzzled. The illegal information of enterprises listed in the online water pollution map comes from the information published by environmental protection departments at all levels or local governments. To disclose the illegal information of this enterprise, the first premise is that this enterprise has been criticized by government departments for environmental protection issues.

Ma Jun and his assistant spent a lot of time searching online, hoping to find out the official attitude towards this enterprise. Later, I found a news report that a mayor asked enterprises to control pollution within a time limit at the meeting. The mayor's speech became the basis for the company to be included in the "blacklist" of pollution maps. This news was also noticed by the media, which attracted the attention of the government and put pressure on this enterprise again.

"There is still too little public environmental information, especially the illegal information of enterprises." Ma Jun said that the pace of government environmental information disclosure has begun. For example, every year, the government publishes the environmental quality information of various places, and the information of enterprises listed and supervised by the environmental protection department can be found on the government website. However, after all, most enterprises listed and supervised have very serious problems, and most enterprises' environmental illegal information is still kept in the cabinet of the environmental protection department.

Although many websites of grass-roots environmental protection departments have set up "exposure desk" columns, they are either empty or just tell some illegal facts of enterprises, but the names of enterprises are often replaced with "××". Ma Jun said that he remembered that Guangdong had announced that more than 1,000 enterprises with environmental violations would be rectified, but he did not mention the names of any of them.

When releasing the "China Water Pollution Map", Ma Jun also ranked the environmental protection information release index of various places, and many cities got zero, which means that quite a few cities have never released any effective environmental protection information.

One fact that civil environmental protection organizations hope is that the forthcoming Measures for the Disclosure of Environmental Information stipulates that environmental protection departments must announce to the public the list of local enterprises with excessive pollution, the list of enterprises with major and extraordinarily serious environmental pollution accidents or incidents, and the list of enterprises that refuse to implement the decision on environmental administrative punishment, and may not refuse to announce them on the grounds of "business secrets".