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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment will sign a ‘voluntary agreement to reduce fine dust in the high-concentration season’ on December 10 with 43 companies in seven industries, including glass manufacturing, non-ferrous metals, paper manufacturing, regional heating, public power generat
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2019.12.13 11:03
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment said that Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) will be used to effectively monitor fine dust emitted from industrial sites. UAV is a remote- and automatic, ultra-light aircraft that can fly for more than four hours on a single charge. The unmanned aerial veh
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2019.12.13 11:03
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment will announce the legislation of amendments to the Clean Air Conservation Act and the Enforcement Rules for 40 days from December 11. The amendment stipulates that the results of measurement of Tele-monitoring System (TMS) be disclosed in real time, a
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2019.12.13 10:57
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment announced that the budget for 2020 was finalized at the plenary session of the National Assembly on December 10. The Ministry of Environment's budget and fund for 2020 is 9.539 trillion won, a 21.5% increase from 7.849 trillion won this year. The
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2019.12.13 10:49
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Forest Service announced that it will organize an on-site control team for the seasonal control system to reduce the emission of ultrafine dust from farming and mountain villages in accordance with the fine dust seasonal management system (December to March). The Korea
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2019.12.13 09:56
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] Environment Minister Cho Myung-rae visited Dapsimni Station on Subway Line No. 5 in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, on December 5 to check on the management of indoor air quality at underground stations. The visit was made to specifically check air quality management of multi-use facilitie
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2019.12.08 12:39
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment said it has disposed 726,000 tons of illegal wastes, or 60.3% of the total 1.2 million tons, across the country, and plans to dispose of all remaining illegal wastes by the first half of next year. The Ministry of Environment established measures to e
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2019.12.08 12:36
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Environment Ministry signed a ‘voluntary agreement to reduce fine dust in the high-concentration season’ with leading companies in five industries – iron and steal manufacture, private power generation, oil refining and petrochemicals. The agreement aims to cope with t
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2019.12.04 14:41
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment said it convened a meeting of officials at the director-general level at its headquarters and all heads of its agencies across the country to check the fine dust seasonal management system, in line with the full-scale implementation of it.At the meeti
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2019.12.03 11:27
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The National Institute of Environmental Research will conduct a four-month survey of 2,000 households in apartment buildings across the country from December this year on the status of indoor radon concentration.As the concentration of radon in apartments has not been higher tha
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2019.11.29 09:29
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] Representative Shin Chang-hyun of the Democratic Party of Korea proposed on November 27 a partial revision of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act that calls for criminal punishment if the agreement of environmental impact assessment is not implemented.Under the current law,
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2019.11.29 09:24
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The National Institute of Environmental Research published a summary report of ‘Joint research project for Long–range Transboundary Air Pollutans in Northeast Asia (LTP)’ on November 20.The LTP refers to a joint international research among South Korea, China and Japan to
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2019.11.27 18:04
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The fine dust seasonal management system will be implemented from December 1st.The restriction on the operation of emission-grade 5 vehicles in the metropolitan area will be guided and promoted until January next year, and a full-scale crackdown will be carried out from February
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2019.11.27 09:47
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Water Technology Certification Agency under the Environment Ministry will hold an opening ceremony on November 26 to take the first step toward realizing the ideal direction of the national water industry.The Ministry of Environment decided to establish the Korea Water
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2019.11.26 10:07
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] A ‘plan to reduce disposable single-use items’ will be implemented, to reduce disposable products by 35% by 2022.Starting in 2021, paper cups (except vending machine paper cups) will be banned if they can be replaced with multi-use cups (mugs).Plastic bags that are banned from l
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2019.11.25 12:06
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The amendment to the Act on the Conservation and Use of Biological Diversity passed a plenary session of the National Assembly on November 19. This will define the concept of ecosystem services and provide a basis for measuring and valuation of ecosystem services.Rep. Jeon Hyunh
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2019.11.22 12:19
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] According to the National Council on Climate and Air Quality and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s survey of 2,000 people on fine dust, 78.3% approved the implementation of the seasonal management system during high concentrations (from December to March) when fine d
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2019.11.20 09:24
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment released the naturally occurring asbestos geological map through the asbestos management information network (asbestos.me.go.kr).Naturally occurring asbestos refers to asbestos existing in rocks or soil due to natural activities such as geological act
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2019.11.18 09:28
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment will carry out disaster response simulation training for high-concentration fine dust on November 15 with related ministries and 17 cities and provincesThe training was organized to check the agency's response capabilities and cooperation systems
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2019.11.15 10:58
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] Seoul Grand Park signed an MOU with Malaysia's Bukit Merah Orangutan Foundation on Nov. 10 and completed two days of talks on details of cooperation on the conservation of the orangutan in the future.The Bukit Merah Orangutan Foundation specializes in conservation, research,
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2019.11.15 10:50