since December 22nd, Henan Puyang Municipal People’s Procuratorate, the hospital to support environmental protection in Henan Province Federation of Shandong province Liaocheng dongran Chemical Co., Ltd Puyang City Intermediate People’s court, require the company to undertake environmental remediation costs 14 million 910 thousand yuan. This is the environmental public interest litigation cases Puyang prosecutors first support environmental groups sued the.

From March 2015 to May, Shandong province Liaocheng dongran Chemical Co. Ltd. without its production of more than 1000 tons of waste sulfuric acid, gave no personnel illegal disposal of hazardous waste transport and disposal of qualified, which will be directly poured into the domestic waste sulfuric acid Nanle county 6 rivers, 1 rivers in Qingfeng county. The waste sulfuric acid belongs to “marked the national hazardous waste list” in the “HW34 waste acid” hazardous waste, directly led to the surrounding farmland and forest dieback caused serious damage to the surface water and soil environment.

The courtroom xinhuanet.com (Zhao Yue photo)

After identification, the environmental pollution incidents caused by surface water environmental damage amount of 14 million 917 thousand and 800 yuan, 8 thousand and 300 yuan of emergency disposal expenses. The case after the incident, the people’s Intermediate People’s court and Nanle County Procuratorate of Puyang city through timely intervention, to guide the investigation, commissioned by the identification, investigation, find out the Shandong Liaocheng dongran Chemical Co. Ltd. and the relevant evidence of a pan et al environment pollution of chemical industrial waste dump. At present, the case of criminal suspects have been sentenced to criminal court to the pollution of the environment.

In order to protect the ecological environment, safeguarding the public interest, the Puyang Municipal People’s Procuratorate decided to support the prosecution of Liaocheng dongran Chemical Co. Ltd. for the illegal dumping of chemical industrial waste caused by environmental pollution lawsuit. Because no local commonweal organization in accordance with the law, by the Henan Provincial People’s Procuratorate coordination, determined by the Henan provincial Environmental Protection Association as the plaintiff, as by the Puyang Municipal People’s Procuratorate for prosecution, environmental public interest litigation filed to the Puyang City Intermediate People’s court. The day before, Puyang City Intermediate People’s court has accepted the case.