Chinese lawmakers on Friday suggested formulating an environmental monitoring law to prohibit disorderly, arbitrary monitoring of the environment. China lacks a special law or regulation on the management of environmental monitoring, which has led to a chaotic state in which various government departments, public institutions and individuals are monitoring China’s environment and releasing different data, lawmakers said in a report adopted by the top legislature on Friday. A law should be in place to protect and regulate governments’ or individuals’ environmental monitoring activities, and to provide a legal basis for the act, lawmakers said in the report. Read More
