Environmental monitoring data fraud is fined 200,000

A cement company in Beijing was penalized by 200,000 yuan for the automatic monitoring of equipment data pollution. Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau issued an administrative penalty hearing notice today.

According to reports, in order to improve the effective supervision of key pollution sources in real time, Beijing has established an automatic pollution source supervision system and realized real-time monitoring of more than 200 key pollution sources in the city. With this scientific and technological means, the environmental protection department can grasp the status of pollutants emitted by the pollution source units for the first time, and discover that violations such as exceeding the standards and stopping the treatment of facilities can be dealt with in a timely manner according to law. The key pollution source units can also adjust their own production and pollutant discharge management at any time according to the automatic monitoring data, and achieve emission standards.

In June of this year, Beijing Environmental Monitoring Corps found that the automatic monitoring data of Beijing Lima Cement Co., Ltd. was lower than the normal emissions data of the industry during the daily inspection of automatic monitoring data. On June 24, the law enforcement officers of the Environmental Monitoring Corps conducted a comprehensive system inspection of the company and found that its automatic monitoring of IPC parameters was artificially modified. As a result, the measured concentrations of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and particulates were only 70% of the actual emission concentration. % and 50%, resulting in significantly lower emission concentrations of the three major pollutants. It is understood that the company has modified the parameters so that the environmental protection department obtains much less emission data than the actual emission value, so that the purpose of paying less sewage charges can be achieved.

The behavior of the company has violated relevant laws and regulations related to environmental protection. The Beijing Environmental Monitoring Corps immediately ordered the company to stop the illegal activities and required it to make correction within a time limit. On July 29, the Environmental Monitoring Corps issued an administrative penalty notice to the company and penalized him for a fine of 200,000 yuan. In addition, it will also be required to pay sewage charges in accordance with the law.

Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau stated that from the perspective of online monitoring of pollution source automatic supervision system, most units can abide by the law and self-discipline, but there is no lack of such companies as Lima Cement Co., Ltd., in order to pursue economic interests, lack of corporate social responsibility, and relax their management. Requests to find ways to get rid of supervision in order to exchange environmental pollution for the company's economic interests. The environmental protection department in Beijing will further increase daily inspections of automatic monitoring data and find that relevant environmental violations will be punished with high penalties according to law.