Thanh Hoa Strengthening the control of air pollution in the province

DNHN - The Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee has just issued a communiqué on enhancing air pollution control in the province. As a result, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee demanded that all provincial departments, agencies, and branch

Contents of the written request: The Department of Natural Resources and Environment shall assume primary responsibility for and coordinate with relevant units in assessing and monitoring air quality; calculate and publish the ambient air quality index (AQI), and simultaneously connect to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment so that specialized agencies, news agencies, and press can monitor, access, and news coverage; and promptly alert local authorities when air quality reaches unhealthy levels.

The Department of Construction guides and directs the People's Committees of districts, towns, and cities to carry out the responsibility for managing construction orders by decentralization; requests the district-level People's Committee to inspect and handle violations of construction order in the area upon receiving feedback from the People, the press, or during the settlement of petitions, complaints, and denunciations.

The Department of Transport shall assume primary responsibility for and coordinate with relevant units in conducting emission testing for road vehicles, ensuring that all vehicles participating in traffic meet all technical requirements. about environmental protection.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development establishes guidelines for the treatment of agricultural by-products and pesticide packaging in the direction of recycling into useful products, to end the province-wide practice of burning rice straw and agricultural by-products after each harvest.

The Department of Health shall coordinate with provincial-level media agencies to strengthen health protection measures and solutions for the current situation of dust pollution in the air, as well as public education, dissemination, and guidance. This.

The Department of Information and Communications collaborates with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to disseminate air quality monitoring data to the community via press agencies and the grassroots information system. information about the society or daily weather forecasts.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that the People's Committees of districts, towns, and cities issue a roadmap to end the burning of rice straw and agricultural by-products, treat food after each harvest, and ensure that the rate of collection, treatment, and processing of rice straw and agro-forestry by-products after harvesting into useful products reaches 100% (the People's Committees of Thanh Hoa city and Sam Son city have added a roadmap to end the burning of rice straw). utilizing honeycomb charcoal stoves in urban residential and commercial settings).

Directing the People's Committees and functional units at the commune level, intensifying propaganda and mobilizing the populace not to burn solid waste and straw after harvest; promptly identifying and preventing open burning activities in the area, and enforcing strict penalties for violations.

Inspect and urge the project owners, management, and construction units of construction, traffic, and urban infrastructure improvement projects to implement stringent measures to prevent and reduce dust and gas emissions. encompassing environment (covering works, means of transporting construction materials, construction waste, spraying water, washing roads, washing vehicles entering and exiting works...).

In any locale where subjective causes under the responsibility of the Party Committee and the government result in severe environmental pollution, the collective leadership, the heads of the Party Committees, and the government must be held accountable before the Provincial Standing Board. Before the Party Committee, the Provincial People's Committee, and the law.

Ngoc Lam