Luoyang issues orange alert for heavy air pollution
2020-01-02 16:46:49 [Print]
The Office for Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control of Luoyang announced on December 31, 2019 that the city might experience moderate to severe air pollution from 2 to 5 January 2020 following a temporary air quality improvement between December 31, 2019 and January 1, 2020, according to the latest weather forecast and air quality prediction. In order to reduce peak pollution level, shorten pollution period, cut down pollutants discharge and deal with heavy air pollution effectively and in a scientific way, the city government has decided to change the alert level from red (level-one) to orange (level-two) in main urban areas and a group of counties (Yanshi, Mengjin, Xin'an, Yichuan, Yiyang and Jili) starting at 0:00 a.m. on January 1, 2020. The whole city will then be under an orange alert until further notice.
The city's 15 industries including iron and steel, coking, alumina, primary aluminum, carbon, copper smelting and casting that are subject to performance classification mechanism are required to implement compulsory emission reduction measures under the orange alert.
Other industries such as steel companies with short production process, refractory, lead and zinc smelting, ore mining and dressing, nonferrous metals smelting and rolling shall implement compulsory emission reduction measures based on "one plant, one solution" policy and be made public and subject to supervision.
The city's 15 industries including iron and steel, coking, alumina, primary aluminum, carbon, copper smelting and casting that are subject to performance classification mechanism are required to implement compulsory emission reduction measures under the orange alert.
Other industries such as steel companies with short production process, refractory, lead and zinc smelting, ore mining and dressing, nonferrous metals smelting and rolling shall implement compulsory emission reduction measures based on "one plant, one solution" policy and be made public and subject to supervision.
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