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Polluting Plants Shut by Officials Found Still in Use
A recent round of inspection checks by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has found that a number of factories that were ordered to shut down due to environmental violations have continued to operate illegally. These cases of non-compliance highlights the monitoring and enforcement challenges that China’s environmental authority faces amid ambitious plans to tackle pollution. Bibek Bhandari at Sixth Tone reports: The Ministry of EnvironmentalApril 22, 2017