Steel industry's New Environmental Law

On January 1, 2015, the newly revised "environmental protection law" will begin. On October 17 to 26, new "interim measures for the fine environmental protection by the day", "interim measures for the implementation of environmental protection seal up, distrain, such as four supporting document for the whole society for public opinion, will be printed in years. New environmental laws and successive punishment by the day, establishment of form a complete set of documents of uncapped, seized on the seizure, restricting output production, such as information disclosure regulation pointed to "punch" polluters, called "history's most severe environmental laws. But as the focus on prevention and control of pollution control industry, iron and steel industry will also accelerate realignment.

"Interim measures for environmental protection on a daily basis successive punishment for" specifically lists the eight kinds of illegal discharge of pollutants, the environmental protection department can implement continuous punishment by the day. Overall volume, the eight kinds of behavior including overweight before batch building drainage, drainage without drainage license, or fail to discharge pollutants discharge permit regulations, through the drainage tubes, pits and forge the monitoring data of sewage, etc to avoid regulation. Lange steel net, director of the center for guo-qing wang believes that the revised environmental laws have intensified, fines for polluting enterprises "cap", further intensify the visible penalties, has made a more detailed to the violation behavior, penalties, it will effectively curb environmental illegal high-risk situation, the pollutant discharging enterprises have very good deterrent. New environmental laws in the aspect of regulation would be increased, if the smooth implementation, to curb steel production capacity expansion and compressed supply are of great help, is beneficial to improve the industry concentration, in the long run will benefit the whole steel industry.

After the introduction of new environmental laws, the enterprise will pay more attention to environmental protection, and strictly abide by the laws and regulations. For some substandard equipment, company will take out, at the same time, also will update some new energy-saving environmental protection equipment, the process will involve the issue of enterprise costs increase. Relevant data show that the average environmental costs of about 55 yuan per ton steel in the steel industry in our country, the advanced enterprise of average environmental cost of per ton steel is about 1.5 times higher than the backward enterprise ~ 2 times. New steel facilities, environmental protection investment accounts for some 15% of the total investment; Newly released by the state of atmospheric pollutant emission limits of requirement, 10 million tons of steel joint enterprise environmental protection investment is about 1 billion yuan.

The personage inside course of study thinks, the high cost of environmental protection made the original is not very good iron and steel enterprise is under pressure, with the establishment of the system execution system, and the improvement of the supervision and punishment mechanism, many iron and steel enterprises was again raise environmental standards, some small and medium-sized steel mills of living space will become more narrow. In a sense, the enterprise wants to survive, must have to do environmental protection standard, the environmental protection of good iron and steel enterprise is actually a turnaround. And some poorly run the risk of small and medium-sized steel mills may face exit the market.

Guo-qing wang believes that since the implementation of new environmental laws officially environmental governance standards and regulatory system of iron and steel industry in parallel, and an omni-directional and multi-level integrated environmental protection supervision mechanism system, the implementation of the standards, regulation and rule of law will implement the unification, basically use environmental weapons to damage to the steel industry challenges of haze and pollution of the environment, to solve the unfair competition mechanism of iron and steel industry and steel industry overcapacity problem.