Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Polluters now have to pay cleanup costs - USA - Chinadaily.com.cn


Taizhu Intermediate People's Court, Jiangsu Province
Polluters now have to pay cleanup costs - USA - Chinadaily.com.cn

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.
That polluters pay the cost of environmental and ecological restoration is perfectly justified, and will relieve the governments, if not taxpayers, of the heavy financial burden of cleaning up the mess caused by polluters.
As the plaintiffs, the local procuratorates have played an important role in winning the two cases, as they are much more professional and experienced in collecting evidence and presenting it to the court than individual citizens or social organizations.

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