Vehicle emissions limit to deal with hazy days

Since January, long-term, large-scale haze weather in central and eastern China has aroused public concern. Zhou Shengxian, Minister of National Environmental Protection, said that he would consider setting up a leading group for air pollution prevention and joint prevention and control led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and related departments and provincial governments in the region to solve air pollution problems in the inter-provincial regions of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Yangtze River Delta. At the same time, Beijing launched four major initiatives.

â–  Beijing's four new measures to deal with haze days move 1

Launched "Beijing Heavy Pollution Day Emergency Plan"

From January 1, 2013, Beijing began to monitor and evaluate air quality in accordance with the new Ambient Air Quality Standards, and announced the implementation of the "Heavy Pollution Day Emergency Plan." In the heavy pollution weather that Beijing suffered in January, Beijing initiated emergency plans according to regulations. Among them, during the 10-15 days of hazy weather, the southwest and southeast regions launched the emergency plan with the highest level of “extremely heavy pollution days”, 30% of the buses stopped, and 58 polluting enterprises stopped production.

Initiative 2

Putting Air Pollution Prevention Legislation on the Agenda On January 19, the Regulations on Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution in Beijing Municipality (Draft for Ratification) was submitted to the public for comments, contrasting the “Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law” implemented in Beijing in 2000. This is the first time Beijing has put legislation on air pollution control on the agenda. According to the “Draft”, when the atmosphere is seriously polluted and may endanger human health and safety, the Beijing Municipal Government can take mandatory emergency measures, including ordering the emission units to suspend production, partially suspend production, and stop some motor vehicles.

Initiative 3

As the nation's first to implement the State V emission standard approved by the State Council, Beijing will take the lead in implementing the fifth phase of the national vehicle emission standard (Beijing V emission standard) from February 1st. Since March 1st, it will not be in line with Beijing V. Emissions standard vehicles will not be sold and registered in Beijing. It is understood that after the Beijing V emission standard is implemented, the emission of nitrogen oxides from light-duty gasoline vehicles and heavy-duty diesel vehicles will drop by about 43%. At the same time, after the use of new standard petrol vehicles in Beijing, nitrogen oxides will also reduce emissions by 15%, and PM2.5 will also be reduced simultaneously.

Initiative 4

Municipal officials of the municipal municipality committee of the municipal cleaning frequency increase the number of serious pollution. When a serious pollution day (500>AQI>300) occurs, the frequency of urban road sweeping and cleaning operations is increased twice, and when the heavy pollution day (AQI>500) occurs , Increase the frequency of cleaning and cleaning operations more than 2 times.

In addition, after receiving the warning, each responsible unit shall take corresponding emergency measures in accordance with the emergency implementation procedures for dust pollution control of heavily polluted weather roads to strengthen the road scouring, road dusting, road cleaning and road sweeping operations in the area of ​​responsibility. .

>> Related Pollutes for Soliciting Public Comments Car Concern for Car Limitation As of yesterday, the "Beijing Municipal Atmospheric Pollution Prevention and Control Ordinance" (draft review draft) has solicited opinions for 10 days. In the past 10 days, the website of the Legal Affairs Office of the Beijing Municipal People’s Government received a total of 221 opinions from netizens, and the public’s focus was mostly on Article 58 of the draft “Online restrictions on use of vehicles”.

In order to improve the quality of Beijing's atmospheric environment, the Beijing Municipal People's Congress and the municipal government decided to formulate a new "Beijing Municipal Air Pollution Prevention Regulations" to replace the existing "Beijing Municipal People's Republic of China to Implement the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law".

According to Article 58 of the draft, “Limiting the use of vehicles in the area”: The Municipal People’s Government may, in accordance with the quality of the atmospheric environment, adopt traffic control measures that restrict the travel of motor vehicles within a certain area in accordance with the level, age, or type of vehicles. "In violation of Article 58 of these Regulations, if a motorized vehicle enters a restricted-ride area, the public security department of traffic shall order it to stop the illegal act and punish it in accordance with the law."

Some netizens suggested that the conditions and standards for vehicle restrictions should be further clarified. He believes that the regulations on “restrictions on vehicles in use” are too vague, and it is recommended that the standards be further refined to reduce discretion. For example, it should be clear that the level of air pollution index and the line-limit object that can be implemented by the restricted line. Is there a need to distinguish between buses and private cars for in-use vehicles? Netizen Xu Wei suggested that “for the 58th to develop supporting provisions,” such as the traffic control area of ​​enterprises and institutions holiday, has been to work on work as overtime on holidays, labor remuneration is three times the average daily wage.

As the Spring Festival approached, the netizen Zhang Qing suggested that fireworks and fireworks be banned during the Spring Festival, or only for the New Year's Eve. The first day of the month, the fifth and the fifteenth were set off.

It is understood that the solicitation will end on February 8.

â–  Tianjin to promote a variety of clean energy sources Tianjin Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau Director Yan Dingzhong said that this year Tianjin will focus on implementing the five major environmental protection projects, the city's ambient air quality is good and stable for more than 300 days.

Yan Dingzhong introduced the five major environmental protection projects as follows: implementation of decontamination, completion of 32 coal-fired boilers to replace the grid, promotion of clean energy such as gas, the implementation of small thermal power units in-depth treatment to ensure that emissions reduction effect during the year; implementation of environmental protection and people's livelihood projects, focus Implement air pollution prevention based on PM2.5 and smog weather; carry out environmental supervision projects, promote the construction of Tianjin Binhai Industrial Hazardous Waste Disposal Center, and promote the implementation of the city's 12th five-year pollution prevention and control plan for persistent organic pollutants; The hazardous wastes and compound pollutions, etc. are generated by enterprises and enterprises that have exceeded standards and illegal discharges.

â–  Coal consumption control in Hebei's strict urban areas In this year's government work report, Hebei Province stated that it will do a good job of monitoring and controlling PM2.5 according to the new national standards, and promote the urban industrial enterprises to retreat into the city to enter the park, strictly control the use of coal in urban areas, and strengthen the exhaust of motor vehicles. To meet the discharge standards, accelerate the elimination of "yellow vehicles", and formulate emergency management measures for urban air pollution.

â–¡ In the eastern part of the weather, the overall haze and haze weather was reduced due to the cold air activity. After the large-scale haze in the central and eastern regions from the 10th to the 15th, since the 25th, the central and eastern regions once again fell into a wide range of haze. According to satellite remote sensing monitoring conducted by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the smog area in the central and eastern regions exceeded 1 million square kilometers, which is wider than the previous (10th to 15th) smog process.

During the daytime yesterday, Beijing, Hebei, and Tianjin were all under hazy warning and air pollution was serious. The use of satellite remote sensing monitoring by the Ministry of Environmental Protection indicates that the air “polluted zone” brought by the smog weather runs through the central and eastern part of the country and the area of ​​pollution is more than 1 million square kilometers, which is wider than the ash process from January 10 to January 15. Among them, the pollution is more serious in the southern part of the North China Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Hunan, Hubei and the eastern Sichuan Basin.

The Central Meteorological Observatory predicts that in the next two days, there will be no significant cold air activity and precipitation in the central and eastern regions of China, and haze will continue in some areas. Yesterday at 6 pm, the Central Meteorological Observatory continued to issue heavy fog and indigo blue warning. It is expected that from the night of yesterday to this morning, most parts of the central and eastern regions of China will have haze or haze. Among them, the Beijing-Tianjin region, central and southern Hebei, most of Henan, most of Shandong, northern and southwestern Anhui, eastern Jiangxi, and northwestern Fujian In some areas such as ministries and districts, there is a fog with a visibility of less than 1,000 meters, and visibility in some areas is less than 200 meters.

According to experts from the Central Meteorological Observatory, between mid-July and the 2nd of the next month, a moderately strong cold air will affect the central and eastern parts of China. At that time, the eastern and western regions will usher in rain, snow, and strong winds to cool the weather. The haze surrounding the eastern part of the country will gradually dissipate. .

The Beijing Meteorological Observatory predicts that with the cold air southwards this Thursday (31st), the city is expected to see a snowfall process, and the north winds will follow on Friday. It is hopeful that the haze will be completely dispelled by then.