Article: China will use environmental impact law to curb polluting sectors.

China will use environmental impact law to curb polluting sectors

Shanghai. March 8. INTERFAX-CHINA - Pan Yue, the Deputy Director of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), said on Monday that China would use the environmental impact assessment mechanism to prevent the launch of substandard projects in the iron and steel, concrete, primary aluminum, alumina, ferroalloy, calcium carbide, and coke industries.

SEPA will immediately suspend construction of projects that fail to meet regulations relating to their particular sectors as well as environmental standards, Pan said at a National People's Congress meeting in Beijing. Construction ...

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