Introduction to the incident of the Ministry of Environmental Protection using drones to conduct cross-inspection of small and polluting enterprises in four provinces
A new round of air pollution has begun. The Ministry of Environmental Protection sent 13 inspection teams to the four provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong and Shanxi to conduct inspections. The main content of the inspection is whether these four provinces Implement emergency plans for heavy air pollution. "Legal Daily" reporters participated in the inspection of Henan Province.
On the causes of this air pollution and the characteristics of the inspection, Lu Shize, director of the Atmospheric Quality Management Division of the Department of Atmospheric Affairs of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and Li Jianjun, director of the Station Forecast and Warning Center of the China Environmental Monitoring Ministry, made introductions to the media respectively.
According to Li Jianjun, during this air pollution period from January 14 to 18, Tianjin, Hebei Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Hengshui, Xingtai, Handan, Henan Zhengzhou, Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang, and Jiaozuo More than 20 cities including Puyang, Jinan in Shandong, Dezhou, Liaocheng, Jining, Tai'an, Heze, Zibo, Zaozhuang, Taiyuan in Shanxi, Linfen and Yuncheng may experience severe or above pollution, and the PM2.5 concentration in some cities may exceed 250 micrograms/cubic rice. Around the 19th, the pollution situation affected by cold air is expected to ease.
As for the cause of this air pollution, Li Jianjun said that it was mainly caused by the accumulation of pollutants caused by temperature inversion and calm weather.
In accordance with the principle of early notification and early prevention and control, Lu Shize revealed that on the evening of January 12, the Ministry of Environmental Protection had sent letters to the people's governments of four provinces, including Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan, to report air quality Early warning information, and requires all localities to issue early warnings in a timely manner based on regional forecast results and effectively implement various emission reduction measures.
He told reporters that so far, 30 cities in the region have launched emergency plans in accordance with the forecast results, implemented large-scale emergency linkage, and jointly responded to heavy pollution weather. Among them, 14 cities including Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province, Zhengzhou in Henan Province, and Linfen in Shanxi Province have activated red warnings for heavy pollution weather, 12 cities including Jinan in Shandong Province and Taiyuan in Shanxi Province have activated orange warnings, and 4 cities including Binzhou in Shandong Province have activated blue warnings.
Lu Shize said that due to the greater uncertainty in recent meteorological conditions, the Ministry of Environmental Protection will increase the frequency of forecast consultations and adjust the original consultations from once a week to once a day to further improve the accuracy of forecasts. He pointed out that the Ministry of Environmental Protection requires all localities to adjust warning levels as soon as possible based on the latest forecast results. At the same time, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has deployed a large number of super stations on transmission channels in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas to carry out radar and navigational observations to track and understand pollution components and dynamic changes in real time.
According to Lu Shize, in response to this pollution, the Ministry of Environmental Protection sent 13 inspection teams to key areas for inspection, and they were in place on the 14th. He said that what is different from the past is that this time the Ministry of Environmental Protection has innovated the inspection method and implemented provincial and ministerial integration and cross-enforcement. "For example, Hebei went to Henan to inspect Henan to improve the power of law enforcement." Lu Shize revealed that these 13 inspection teams are environmental protection inspection teams. Composed of law enforcement backbones drawn from various regions by the Ministry of Public Security, the 13 inspection teams mainly conduct cross-inspection inspections in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan provinces, with the purpose of ensuring that emergency measures for heavy air pollution in these provinces can be implemented.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection also "uses satellite remote sensing, drones, grid maps and other means to carry out supervision and inspection of illegal discharges by small businesses such as 'small and random polluters' in districts and counties," Lu Shize said. Large-scale key source enterprises implement monitoring through online monitoring data. Once excessive standards are found, law enforcement personnel will be sent to the site for verification. If found to be true, emergency treatment will be dealt with. He revealed that the Ministry of Environmental Protection will promptly announce the online monitoring of excessive emissions by key source companies and severely crack down on various illegal activities such as excessive emissions.
Lu Shize pointed out that the Ministry of Environmental Protection is working with relevant experts from various regions to conduct an in-depth analysis of the causes and transmission patterns of air pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas, to study and propose more effective pollution control measures, and to implement the "winter disease and summer disease prevention and control measures". "control" and reduce air pollutant emissions from the source.