Behind the fraud of enterprises, there are local environmental protection departments & ldquo; Keep one eye open and one eye closed & rdquo; Their inaction and even active fraud to show their achievements in pollution control. What was destroyed was not only these monitoring technicians and several environmental monitoring station heads, but also shook the foundation of the national environmental monitoring data and damaged the credibility of the environmental protection department< br />
Environmental monitoring data is the decision-making basis for environmental governance. If the water injection at the source is false, the decision-making will inevitably deviate, delay the opportunity of environmental governance and damage the public interest< br />
Since January 1, 2016, the Ministry of environmental protection has implemented the measures for judging and handling fraud in environmental monitoring data. According to the provisions of the measures, the Ministry of environmental protection will spend the next two years conducting special inspections to strictly investigate the falsification of local environmental monitoring data, especially air quality testing data. More severe stick, waving to counterfeiting enterprises, local environmental protection departments and local governments, is worthy of praise< br />
From the overall situation, the central and local governments have invested a lot in the field of environmental monitoring. The funds used by the online monitoring network have already exceeded 10 billion. In theory, they have the ability to monitor tens of thousands of pollution sources. Among them, 436 million yuan was invested in the atmospheric monitoring system alone, and the largest air quality monitoring network in developing countries was built in 2014. It is in this context that some local governments fabricate and tamper with monitoring data from time to time in order to reduce the pressure of assessment. The central leadership has repeatedly instructed to crack down on the falsification of environmental protection data and be strictly accountable for false figures< br />
Environmental monitoring data has risen to the legal level and has a higher binding force. The new environmental protection law clearly stipulates that monitoring institutions should use monitoring equipment that meets national standards, abide by monitoring specifications, be responsible for the authenticity and accuracy of monitoring data, and punish those who tamper with, forge or instruct to tamper with or forge monitoring data and investigate their legal responsibilities. In the second half of 2015, environmental protection departments at all levels verified 8 typical illegal cases, all of which have been handed over to the public security organ for handling, and 10 responsible persons have been sentenced to criminal or administrative detention< br />
The reason why enterprises can resort to fraud shows that there are loopholes in the online automatic monitoring network of environmental protection. I learned that some enterprises have purchased counterfeiting equipment, leaving room for data forgery and tampering, trying to muddle through. The environmental monitoring data released by some local governments are inconsistent with the intuitive feelings of citizens, and sometimes there is a great contrast, which is also related to this loophole< br />
For many years, the falsification of environmental detection data in some places has been an open secret. Just as in recent years, some sewage into deserts or rivers are knowingly illegal. In my opinion, behind the fraud of these enterprises, there are local environmental protection departments & ldquo; Keep one eye open and one eye closed & rdquo; Their inaction does not even rule out taking the initiative to cooperate with fraud to show their achievements in pollution control. This practice not only destroys these monitoring technicians and several environmental monitoring station heads, but also shakes the foundation of the national environmental monitoring data and destroys the credibility of the environmental protection department.