Chinese MEE Put Sky-high Risks on Environmental Monitor Staff

China’s central government has been making herculean efforts to improve environmental quality in recent years. Both local governments and enterprises are under extreme pressure to meet environmental protection and rectification goals. Although the results of China’s environmental rectification programs have been positive in some areas and aspects, there have also been less obvious and unintended negative impacts as local governments buckle under the pressure and attempt to find loopholes or illegally circumvent new requirements.