The Ministry of Ecology and Environment raided two places in Henan and found that many enterprises had problems such as illegal sewage discharge.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 22-The Ministry of Ecology and Environment publicly announced on February 22 that from February 20 to 21, Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu went to Pingdingshan City and Xuchang City, Henan Province to carry out surprise inspections on key industries such as coking, steel and glass, and found that enterprises generally violated laws and regulations, such as abnormal operation of pollution control facilities, excessive discharge, emergency measures to reduce emissions in heavy polluted weather, falsification of production accounts, falsification of online monitoring and manual monitoring data.

　　Since the end of 2022, there has been a long-term and extensive heavy pollution weather in southern Henan Province, and severe and serious pollution weather has continued to appear in many areas. Since February 2023, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has continuously sent a working group to carry out supervision and assistance for the prevention and control of air pollution in winter in Henan Province.

　　According to the report of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Huang Runqiu led the supervision and assistance group to carry out surprise inspections on seven enterprises successively, and learned more about the implementation of the air pollution prevention law and the implementation of emergency emission reduction measures for heavily polluted weather. The inspection found that there were many illegal and illegal problems in enterprises, such as abnormal operation of pollution control facilities, excessive discharge, emergency measures to reduce pollution, falsification of production accounts, falsification of online monitoring and manual monitoring data, involving Ruzhou Tianrui Coal Coking Co., Ltd. and Henan Pingmei Shenma Jingbao Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.

　　Huang Runqiu said that it is necessary to adhere to the problem orientation, dare to touch the real thing, and resolutely investigate and deal with environmental violations according to law with a "zero tolerance" attitude, especially the collusion between enterprises and third-party monitoring companies, forgery and tampering with monitoring data, which are serious in nature and have a bad impact, and violate the criminal law. We must resolutely crack down and give full play to the warning role. Enterprises should effectively shoulder the main responsibility of air pollution control, strengthen the operation and management of pollution control facilities, and ensure that pollutants meet the discharge standards. Local ecological and environmental departments should earnestly fulfill their regulatory responsibilities, strengthen supervision and law enforcement, further improve their ability to identify and discover problems, especially deep-seated problems such as fabricating data and forging data, conscientiously carry out investigation and evidence collection of enterprises involved in environmental violations, and do a good job in the second half of the rectification.