{"id":51256,"date":"2019-04-11T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51256"},"modified":"2019-04-15T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T04:41:36","slug":"epa-shuts-down-242-industrial-units-in-gujranwala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/epa-shuts-down-242-industrial-units-in-gujranwala.html","title":{"rendered":"EPA shuts down 242 industrial units in Gujranwala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gujranwala: The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has shut down 242 industrial units on account of spreading pollution, a news source reported. EPA had earlier singled out 400 units found responsible for increasing environment pollution levels, and producing untreated wastewater.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/budgetary-proposals-approved-for-environmental-projects.html\">Budgetary proposals approved for environmental projects<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EPA Director Waseem Ahsan Cheema and Senior Inspector Gulam Murtaza Bhatti took action in accordance with their instructions communicated.<\/p>\n<p>In the first the first phase, the agency had conducted a survey to find factories, kilns, and furnaces responsible for the pollution. Four hundred units were found responsible for this.<\/p>\n<p>The action was taken along Shiekhupura Road, GT Road and areas adjacent to these roads: Mian Sansi Road, Bakar Mandi, Sanat Road, Bajwa Road, Estate Number 1, and Estate Number 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/environment-department-seals-feed-factory-boilers.html\">Environment department seals feed factory boilers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apart from shutting down the 242 units, 57 units were sent warning notices, while 30 cases have been referred to the environmental court to prosecute the culprits for heavy fines, and other punishments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujranwala: The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has shut down 242 industrial units on account of spreading pollution, a news source reported. EPA had earlier singled out 400 units found responsible for increasing environment pollution levels, and producing untreated wastewater. Read: Budgetary proposals approved for environmental projects EPA Director Waseem Ahsan Cheema and Senior Inspector Gulam Murtaza Bhatti took action in accordance with their instructions communicated. In the first the first phase, the agency had conducted a survey to find factories, kilns, and furnaces responsible for the pollution. Four hundred units were found responsible for this. The action was taken along Shiekhupura Road, GT Road and areas adjacent to these roads: Mian Sansi Road, Bakar Mandi, Sanat Road, Bajwa Road, Estate Number 1, and Estate Number 2. Read:\u00a0Environment department seals feed factory boilers Apart from shutting down the 242 units, 57 units were sent warning notices, while 30 cases have been referred to the environmental court to prosecute the culprits for heavy fines, and other punishments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":40345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11271],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-epa-shuts-down-242-industrial-units-in-gujranwala"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EPA shuts down 242 industrial units in Gujranwala - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gujranwala: The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has shut down 242 industrial units on account of spreading pollution, a news source reported. 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