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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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[환경일보] 전 세계 해양기술 협력센터 네트워크가 지난 3년간 선적으로 인한 온실가스 배출 저감에 필요한 변화를 추진하는 데 도움이 되는 일련의 파일럿 프로젝트를 완료했다고 발표했다.글로벌해양기술협력센터(GMN)의 프로젝트에 따라 5개 지역 해양기술협력센터(MTCCs)가 설립됐으며, 프로젝트는 유럽연합의 자금 지원으로 안전하고 친환경적이며 지속가능한 해양 운송을 위한 표준을 개발하고 채택하는 국제해양기구(IMO)에 의해 운영돼 왔다.그 사이 MTCC는 97개국의 참가국을 포함해 1179개의 참가 선박과 협력해 에너지 효율 개선을 알
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2019.11.16 09:00
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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
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] Owners who damaged the Green Belt Zone by installing illegal buildings and operating restaurants around valleys in Seoul have been caught.The Seoul Metropolitan Government said they have detected 13 illegal restaurants and sent them to the prosecution after conducting a crackdow
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2019.11.13 09:58
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] It has been confirmed that 63% of 996 facilities that emit dioxin, a class-one carcinogen, are incineration facilities, and all 25 facilities that have exceeded the permissible level over the past three years are incineration facilities.According to the data submitted to Rep. Sh
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2019.11.12 10:01
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] Radon was detected in some schools exceeding the indoor standard (148㏃/㎥), according to a result of measuring radon in elementary, middle and high schools nationwide.According to data submitted by Rep. Shin Yong-hyun of the Bareunmirae Party from the Education Ministry, last yea
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2019.11.11 10:23
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The National Institute of Biological Resources will publish a comprehensive statistics on biodiversity in Korea and the status of 50,827 species of native organisms.This year's statistical book selected the table of contents according to the biodiversity and biological resou
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2019.11.08 12:39