China Pledges Harsher Punishment in Fight Against Smog
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China will strengthen environmental-protection laws this year to ensure that polluters are held accountable for the damage they cause, the head of the nation’s legislature said.
Laws will be revised so as to enforce “the strictest systems for protecting the environment,” Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the National People’s Congress, told lawmakers yesterday. Zhang is also a member of the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, China’s top decision-making body.