China’s environmental watchdog punished 15 factories, as well as companies in two industrial parks, in the first quarter of the year for violations that resulted in water or air pollution.
The factories either had their production suspended, were given a deadline to correct their practices or ordered to move their projects to other places and compensate those affected, said a release from the Ministry of Environmental Protection on Wednesday.
The plants were mainly punished for excessive or illegal discharges of exhaust gas and waste water, as well as noise and dust pollution, the statement said.
In February, microblog posts revealed that some factories in the city of Weifang in east China’s Shandong Province had disposed of waste water underground, thus polluting the local water supply.
In response, the ministry said it has not found evidence that local factories have disposed of polluted water underground.
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