The State Environmental Protection Administration has issued a circular, urging greater control on the pollution by the tail gas of urban automobiles. It called on provincial, autonomous regional and municipal administrations and the environmental protection bureaus in 113 key cities across the country to see to it that the new cars sold in their areas are well up to the state-prescribed standards in tail gas emission and the cars in use are checked periodically.
It also urged localities to control the emission of exhausts by cars with a carburetor, diesel engine cars, motorcycles and farm cars, improve their management on information about pollution by local automobiles and check the production and sales of fuels and fuel additives in their respective localities.
It said that people are encouraged to report to authorities about the continued production and sales of cars with a carburetor and cars that emit tail gas in excess of the state-prescribed standards.
The data monitored periodically about the emissions of tail gas of the cars in use have to be collected and incorporated into the urban automobile pollution information management system and reported periodically to its SEPA counterpart.
It said that the checks on the production and sales of fuel and fuel additives have to be carried out to ensure the reduction of elements in car fuels that are harmful to the environment. The use of clean energy-fueled cars is encouraged, it said.
(www.cenews.com.cn June 16, 2003)
