国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Opinion
Home / Opinion / Opinion Line

Linfen govt has duty of care to warn residents about SO2 levels

China Daily | Updated: 2017-01-10 07:25

Linfen govt has duty of care to warn residents about SO2 levels

Staff members from Shanxi Provincial Academy of Environmental Science check an unmanned aerial vehicle monitoring polluters on Dec 16 in Shanxi. [Photo/sxrb.com]

THERE WAS SEVERE SMOG throughout northern China last week. While the air pollution in Beijing received a lot of media attention, the city of Linfen in North China's Shanxi province, where the smog was even worse, received little attention until a micro blog on the dangerous levels of sulfur dioxide in the air pollution caught people's attention. Beijing News comments:

According to World Health Organization standards, people should avoid places where the density of sulfur dioxide is higher than 500 micrograms per cubic meter.

A survey by the Beijing municipal environmental protection bureau shows that the respiratory function of those staying even a short time in a place where the density of sulfur dioxide is about 280 mg per cubic meter is severely compromised.

Yet, at its peak on Wednesday, the density of sulfur dioxide in Linfen reached 1,303 mg per cubic meter. If the smog in Beijing is detrimental to human health, the smog in Linfen, with so much sulfur dioxide, can be described as "lethal".

In 1952, the hospitals of London were full of patients with respiratory problems during a heavy fog and many died because of it. Later, the fog was found to have contained high levels of sulfur dioxide.

However, the Linfen officials did not issue any warning to residents about its air pollution. Had a scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences not written about it in her micro blog, the high levels of sulfur dioxide would not have been made public.

Even after media outlets widely covered it, the Linfen municipal government offered no warning to residents. On Friday and Saturday, they discussed the smog behind closed doors, without releasing any information to local residents.

As early as last November, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said that Linfen lagged behind in issuing air pollution alerts. Last December, the Shanxi provincial government ordered Linfen to lower its density of sulfur dioxide in the air. But the authorities have hardly taken any measure.

It is time to answer these questions: Which official in Linfen is in charge of environmental protection? Which official failed to issue an alert? Which official prevented the truth from reaching the people?

Most Viewed in 24 Hours
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
抚顺县| 高平市| 芮城县| 临漳县| 长阳| 丹巴县| 平原县| 阜宁县| 永宁县| 濮阳县| 巍山| 揭阳市| 敦化市| 邢台市| 宁远县| 建平县| 小金县| 乡宁县| 上蔡县| 台南市| 宁都县| 云龙县| 绥化市| 云阳县| 吕梁市| 长沙市| 酒泉市| 梨树县| 永城市| 永寿县| 广灵县| 宁化县| 潮安县| 甘谷县| 大名县| 新沂市| 庆云县| 资阳市| 汉中市| 灵台县| 屏边|