Chinese NGO Blacklists 4,000 Companies For Bad Air Pollution Record – Xinhua

From Xinhua:

More than 4,000 companies were blacklisted for their bad record of air pollution in a public database released here on Thursday.

The database, named China Air Pollution Map (http://air.ipe.org.cn), blacklisted more than 4,000 companies, including subsidiaries of Sinopec and Sina-Mars Group APP in China, the China Youth Daily reported.

“The database collects the bad records of polluters since 2004,” said Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPEA), a non-governmental organization, which sponsored the database. [Full Text]

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