Recalling old cars that cause environmental pollution | People protest?

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has just issued a directive on strengthening the control of air pollution. The document was issued after major cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City recorded serious levels of air pollution in recent days.

In this directive, the Prime Minister emphasized that air pollution affects socio-economic development and public health. The main causes are dust, emissions from vehicles, construction activities, industrial activities with large emissions and not yet effectively controlled.

Meanwhile, the area of green trees and water surface in urban development has not met the requirements; the organization and implementation of legal regulations, programs and tasks on air pollution control have not been synchronized and effective.

Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City recover old cars

The Ministry of Information and Communications, People's Committees of provinces and cities, and press agencies promote information on air quality, measures to prevent air pollution, risks and harms to children's health. People.

Units use information on air quality provided by competent agencies, strictly handle cases of false information, causing confusion in the community.

Commenting that Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are high-risk localities, the Prime Minister asked the People's Committees of these 2 cities to strictly implement the development and implementation of the local air quality management plan in accordance with the regulations. direction of the Prime Minister. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City build and deploy the local air quality monitoring network, increase the number of automatic monitoring stations continuously; provide timely information on air quality to the people.

The head of the Government also requested to accelerate the development of the public transport system, prioritizing vehicles using clean energy, without emissions; recalling and discarding old, outdated and unsatisfactory motor vehicles causing environmental pollution in the city.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City regularly spray water to wash roads at the main traffic axes and routes of urban areas and cities to limit dust dispersion, especially in dry and quiet weather conditions. wind. Thoroughly collect garbage and dirt on axes, routes, and road dividers.

In particular, from now to mid-2021, it is necessary to immediately review and evaluate the observance of the law on dust and gas control at industrial facilities, traffic and construction activities within the scope of the project. manage and propose competent agencies to consider suspending or suspending establishments causing serious environmental pollution in accordance with law.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to evaluate the implementation results and propose an air quality management plan in the period of 2021 - 2025, and report to the Prime Minister in the first quarter of 2021.

Strengthen management, organize the implementation of air quality monitoring programs to ensure effectiveness, implement strict quality control in air environment monitoring, announce monitoring results and promptly warn about air quality monitoring. report air pollution to the community.

The Prime Minister also requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to assume the prime responsibility for formulating, promulgating criteria and certifying eco-labels for environmentally friendly transportation products, vehicles and services.

The Ministry of Transport shall urgently develop a national program and project for the development of environment-friendly means and public transport systems, including electric vehicles, and submit it to the Prime Minister; promote propaganda and encourage people to use public transport, environmentally friendly means of transport.

The Prime Minister also requested relevant ministries and sectors to perform tasks in their respective fields related to environmental protection.

The provinces and cities encourage people to use public transport, reduce personal vehicles; promote propaganda to use environmentally friendly means of transport.

The localities shall strengthen the handling of air-polluting establishments and activities in the locality; resolutely handle violations according to their competence or propose handling measures in accordance with the law on environmental protection.

The Prime Minister also noted the provinces and cities to strictly implement the relocation of establishments causing serious environmental pollution according to the schedule; Immediately implement propaganda, advocacy, and policies to support households and small business households, to move towards not using coal, honeycomb coal causing environmental pollution in daily life from the beginning of 2021. .