Industry | Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced 6 typical cases of ecological environment law enforcement

Case 1: A case of falsification of environmental monitoring data by a third-party monitoring agency in Chongqing Case 1: A case of falsification of environmental monitoring data by a third-party monitoring agency in Chongqing According to the "Regarding Strengthening the Supervision and Management of Ecological Environmental Monitoring Organizations" issued by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the State Administration of Market Supervision In the spirit of the “Notice”, the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Eco-Environment and the Chongqing Municipal Market Supervision Bureau jointly carried out the supervision, inspection and proficiency testing of the ecological environment monitoring agency, according to the "Environmental Monitoring Data Falsification Judgment and Handling Measures" issued by the former Ministry of Environmental Protection, combined with During the on-site inspection, the inspection team found that some of the original monitoring data archives filed by an environmental protection company in Chongqing were suspected of falsification.
For this reason, the Chongqing Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau assigned the Chongqing Municipal Environmental Administrative Law Enforcement Corps to investigate and deal with it.
In March 2019, the Chongqing Municipal Environmental Administrative Law Enforcement Corps, together with relevant offices of the Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau, the Nan'an District Environmental Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment, and the Municipal Public Security Bureau’s Environmental Safety Protection Corps, conducted a joint investigation on the company and found that the company was commissioned by a county water authority , On May 22 and 23, 2018, sampling and monitoring of wastewater discharged from 26 local sewage treatment plants.
According to the monitoring report and its original file records, relevant sampling, sampling and analysis personnel’s statements and the highway records of its leased vehicles, the company’s related monitoring behaviors and the two monitoring reports issued, there are forged monitoring time and forged monitoring data Such circumstances constitute an illegal act of falsifying environmental monitoring data, which violates Article 46, Paragraph 1, "Environmental impact assessment agencies, environmental monitoring agencies, and maintenance and operation of environmental monitoring equipment and pollution prevention facilities" of the "Chongqing Municipal Environmental Protection Regulations" The organization shall not engage in fraud in the relevant environmental service activities.
After collective deliberation, in accordance with Article 107 of the "Chongqing Municipal Environmental Protection Regulations", the Chongqing Municipal Environmental Administrative Law Enforcement Corps imposed a fine of 150,000 yuan on him and imposed a "double fine" on the main person in charge, with 3 Administrative penalty of a fine of 10,000 yuan.
In addition, the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment also notified the company's illegal situation to the market supervision department responsible for its qualification management.
Case 2: A case of tampering and forging monitoring data in a cardboard factory of a company in Xichang City, Sichuan Province Case 2: A case of tampering and forging monitoring data in a cardboard factory of a company in Xichang City, Sichuan ProvinceIn March 2019, when the video surveillance duty officer of the Sichuan Environmental Supervision and Law Enforcement Bureau retrieved the video of a cardboard factory of a company in Xichang City, Liangshan Prefecture, they found that since March 1, the factory has discharged sewage containing a lot of foam every night, but the data is automatically monitored.
It shows that the COD value fluctuates slightly between 45mg/L-50mg/L, and the ammonia nitrogen is constant at 2.
5mg/L.
After analysis, the company was suspected of illegal activities such as secretly discharging high-concentration wastewater at night and falsifying automatic monitoring data.
At about 20 o'clock on March 13, 2019, law enforcement officers carried out a targeted night surprise inspection of the plant and found that the sampling hoses of the plant's main outlet COD, ammonia nitrogen, and total nitrogen automatic monitoring equipment were inserted in artificially placed plastic bottles.
Interfere with the normal sampling of the instrument.
At the same time, there is also the act of injecting clean water into the sedimentation tank to dilute the wastewater discharged outside.
After sampling and monitoring of the effluent from the main outlet, the COD of the wastewater discharged from the factory exceeded the standard by 6.
52 times, and it was suspected that the discharge of water pollutants exceeded the standard.
After further investigation, the executor of the tampering and falsification of monitoring data in this case was the operation and maintenance personnel of the automatic monitoring equipment operation and maintenance unit.
They carefully disguised the substitute sample, filled the substitute sample with a reagent bottle and affixed the reagent label, from the appearance Both the data and the data are consistent with the normal equipment, and the fraudulent methods are concealed, making it difficult to investigate and deal with.
The Sichuan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment fined the company 800,000 yuan in accordance with the law and transferred the case to the public security organs.
At present, the investigation of the case has been concluded, and the procuratorial organ intends to prosecute the company's environmental protection technical management personnel and the personnel of the automatic monitoring equipment operation and maintenance company.
Case 3: An environmental protection technology company in Jiangsu Province illegally dumped waste acid into the Xili Cao River, Changzhou, and environmental pollution Case 3: An environmental protection technology company in Jiangsu Province illegally dumped waste acid into the Xili Cao River, Changzhou to pollute the environment Since October 2018, Jiangsu Province Changzhou Wuyi CanalThe total phosphorus index of Zhongxi Bridge, Xili Cao River Fenzhuang Bridge, Dongjian Bridge, Caoqiao River Cao Bridge, Baidu Port and other sections showed 11 abnormal fluctuations.
The Changzhou Ecological Environment Bureau immediately organized law enforcement, monitoring personnel, and towns and villages along the route, and established multiple investigation teams.
Within 500 meters of the relevant rivers, aerial patrols by drones, boats and water investigations, and land-based investigations along the line are paralleled by “water, land and air” , Carry out all-round, pull-net-style three-dimensional investigation in a combined day and night, and have repeatedly analyzed and judged with the public security, water conservancy, and maritime departments, and adopted joint prevention and control measures.
Eco-environmental law enforcement officers "wall chart operations", using drones to take pictures of the entire range of 500 meters along the Xili Cao River and both sides of the river, to obtain relevant sewage outfalls, tributaries, tributaries, and river water quality imaging data, and to accurately compile river water systems and pollutant conditions Distribution.
The drones took off more than 80 sorties, took 5200 aerial pictures, and produced an image area of ​​15 square kilometers.
At the same time, law enforcement officers were divided into 9 groups to conduct a comprehensive investigation of all sewage disposal units, tributaries, branches, ponds, and rural domestic sewage treatment facilities within 500 meters along the Wuyi Canal, Xili Cao River, and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
A total of 96 tributaries and tributaries were investigated, and 268 sewage disposal units along the line were investigated.
The Environmental Monitoring Agency of Changzhou City has deployed encrypted sites for manual monitoring, collected more than 1,260 samples, conducted continuous and repeated sampling of main tributaries, branches, and sections, and moved testing equipment and instruments to the site, and set up temporary laboratories to achieve immediate collection.
Measure now.
Four new automatic monitoring stations for total phosphorus water quality will be built in Xili Caohe Tianjing Bridge, Jiangzhuang Bridge, Huadu Bridge and Xiyangshu Bridge, and the 5 automatic water quality monitoring stations of Anqiao, Dongjian, Daixi, Fenzhuang and Zhongxi have been built.
The monitoring stations constitute a rigorous water quality monitoring network.
The Changzhou City Department of Ecological Environment conducted analysis and judgment based on the investigation and multiple rounds of monitoring data, and discovered the suspicious points and regularities of abnormal fluctuations in total phosphorus, which were preliminarily determined to be caused by ships dumping pollutants.
canalThe Changzhou Ecological Environment Bureau transferred the environmental pollution case to the public security organ in the form of clues as soon as possible based on the preliminary investigation and preliminary conclusions.
The Changzhou Public Security Bureau immediately filed a case for investigation, and used a variety of technical investigation methods to analyze and judge, and found that an environmental protection technology company was suspected of committing a major crime.
On March 26, 2019, the Changzhou Public Security Bureau arrested 9 persons involved in the case in Nantong City, Wuxi Huishan District, and Yixing City.
The public security agency found that the company delivered more than 15,000 tons of waste acid to Zhu during 2017-2018, and paid Zhu more than 5 million yuan.
Zhu and Fang drove a cargo ship that did not go through the legal procedures to remove the waste acid ( Dangerous*) Transported to the rivers of Wujin District, Changzhou City, where the circulating pump is used to dilute and discharge illegally, which seriously pollutes the water environment.
At present, the legal representative of the environmental protection technology company Miao, Zhu, Fang and others have been approved for arrest, and the case is under further investigation.
Case 4: Cross-regional illegal transfer and dumping danger* of Zhang and others in Lin'an District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province Case 4: Cross-regional illegal transfer and dumping danger* of Zhang and others in Lin'an District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province at 17:00, January 30, 2019 Xu, the Lin'an Branch of Hangzhou Ecological Environment Bureau received a notification from the Public Security "110" Emergency Interaction Command Center that a large number of paint buckets were suspected to have been stolen and found near Yaguan Village, Qingshanhu Street, Lin'an District.
After receiving the report, the law enforcement officers of the Lin'an branch immediately rushed to the scene and immediately activated the "eco-environment + public security law" linkage mechanism.
The public security organs quickly stepped in to investigate, obtain evidence, and analyze simultaneously with the ecological environment department.
In view of the complexity of the case and the issue of cross-regional law enforcement and evidence collection, Lin'an Branch organized a joint meeting of "Ecological Environment + Public Security Law" and decided that the ecological environment department should carry out preliminary investigation and emergency response work, identify the risks involved in the case, and provide relevant information.
Technical Support.
The public security organs used technical means such as acquiring on-site surveillance videos to locate the enterprises and personnel involved in the case, and cooperated with the ecological environment department to summon relevant personnel involved in the case.
The procuratorial organs earnestly studied the facts of the case, promptly approved arrests and prosecutions that meet the conditions for approval of arrests and prosecutions, improved the efficiency of case handling, and laid a solid foundation for the smooth handling of cases.
After investigation, the person in charge of a Hangzhou Packaging Products Co.
, Ltd.
in Yuhang District of Hangzhou City, knowing that Zhang has no qualifications for hazardous waste disposal, still repeatedly used the company’s waste paint buckets, waste rags, and waste paint residues.
*Entrust Zhang to dispose.
Zhang and Dang and others shipped the received dangerous* to Lin'an District, Hangzhou City for dumping, and profited from it.
The Lin'an Branch identified the waste paint barrels and waste paint residues involved as dangerous* in accordance with the "National Hazard* List" and the environmental review and approval documents of a Hangzhou Packaging Products Co.
, Ltd.
At the same time, a third-party testing agency was commissioned to sample and test the soil contaminated by waste paint residues, and the results showed that the characteristic factors in the contaminated soil exceeded the standard, and the dumping was dangerous*.
After weighing, the dangerous* involved in the case and the contaminated soil totaled more than 34 tons.
The Lin'an Branch of Hangzhou Ecological Environment Bureau transferred the case to the public security organ.
Currently, 7 parties have been arrested in accordance with the law.
Case 5: Environmental pollution case at a soil refining processing site in Neikeng Town, Jinjiang City, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province Case 5: Environmental pollution case at a soil refining processing site in Neikeng Town, Jinjiang City, Quanzhou City , Fujian Province September 5, 2018, Jinjiang, Fujian Province The Neikeng Squadron of the Municipal Environmental Protection Administrative Law Enforcement Brigade received a clue that someone in Jiatang Village, Neikeng Town, opened a soil refining processing point on the mountain.
The law enforcement officers immediately carried out investigations and found a building in a hidden part of the woods with heating furnaces, oil storage tanks and other facilities inside the wall.
The law enforcement officers immediately contacted the Jinjiang City Environmental Monitoring Station for sampling and monitoring, and initiated the departmental linkage mechanism.
The Jinjiang City Public Security Bureau The Neikeng Police Station sent personnel to jointly conduct an investigation.
After investigation, the building was located at the Chen Moutu oil refining and processing site in Jiatang Village, Neikeng Town.
There was no business license and EIA procedures.
The waste engine oil residue water was discharged through the pipeline to the abandoned water well next to the plant.
After testing, the concentration of COD, ammonia nitrogen, total chromium, ibuychem.
com/new/sjk?search_name=%E9%94%8C&search_type=1" target="_blank">zinc and zinc in the wastewater discharged from the processing site exceeded the standard, and the zinc concentration exceeded the limit of the Comprehensive Wastewater Discharge Standard by 13.
16 times.
In order to prevent and control environmental risks, Quanzhou Jinjiang Ecological Environment Bureau commissioned a third-party agency to properly transfer and dispose of the 19.
02 tons of waste engine oil stored in the processing point.
In view of the direct discharge of wastewater from the processing site to the abandoned wells, which may cause damage to the ecological environment, a judicial appraisal agency was simultaneously entrusted to carry out the appraisal and assessment of ecological damage.
The Jinjiang Ecological Environment Bureau of Quanzhou City transferred the relevant evidence to the Jinjiang City Public Security Bureau according to law, and investigated the facts of Chen's suspected environmental pollution crime.
Based on the investigation of the case and the evaluation conclusion of ecological environmental damage, the Jinjiang City Procuratorate filed a criminal incidental civil public interest lawsuit with the Jinjiang City Court in accordance with the law.
On October 29, 2019, the first instance of the case was sentenced, and the defendant Chen was sentenced to 1 year in prison for the crime of environmental pollution and was fined 50,000 yuan and compensation for damage to the ecological environment 3.
106,600 yuan.
Case 6: Excessive discharge of sewage from a sewage treatment plant in Minqin County, Wuwei City, Gansu Province Case 6: Excessive discharge of sewage from a sewage treatment plant in Minqin County, Wuwei, Gansu Province On the afternoon of December 18, 2018, Wuwei City Ecological Environment Bureau When inspecting the sewage treatment plant of a certain unit in Minqin County, law enforcement officers of Qinqin Sub-bureau inspected the online monitoring data of the plant's total discharge outlet and found that the total discharge outlet ammonia nitrogen and total nitrogen concentration were daily from December 7th to 18th, 2018.
The average value exceeded the first level B discharge standard in Table I of the "Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant Pollutant Discharge Standard" (both indicators exceeded the standard for 12 consecutive days), so it was decided to file a case for investigation.
On the same day, the "Decision to Order Correction of Illegal Acts" was issued to the unit.
In the process of handling the case, law enforcement officers entered the relevant violations into the Gansu Provincial Environmental Administrative Penalty Discretionary Auxiliary Decision-Making System, and the fine was determined to be 397,100 yuan through system calculations.
On January 3, 2019, the Minqin Sub-bureau of the Wuwei City Ecological Environment Bureau found that the total discharge of the plant still exceeded the standard discharge of ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen and other water pollutants, and decided to impose continuous daily penalties against a total of 635.
36 fines.
Ten thousand yuan.
After the administrative penalty decision was made, the Minqin Branch of the Wuwei City Ecological Environment Bureau actively assisted the plant in finding the cause of exceeding the standard, urged it to make corrections, and ensure the normal operation of sewage treatment facilities to achieve discharge standards.
The Minqin Branch of the Wuwei Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau learned that the second-phase reconstruction and expansion project of the sewage treatment plant of the unit is under implementation, and there are indeed financial difficulties in paying the fine immediately.
According to the relevant provisions of the "Administrative Penalty Law of the People's Republic of China" and "Environmental Administrative Penalty Measures" , Agreed to the unit to postpone the payment of fines, and served it with the "Notice of Agree to Delay the Payment of Fines.
" On February 22, 2019, the unit fulfilled the administrative penalty decision in accordance with the law and paid all fines in full.