{"id":60870,"date":"2020-02-02T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=60870"},"modified":"2020-02-02T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:08:17","slug":"sepa-seals-five-factories-causing-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sepa-seals-five-factories-causing-pollution.html","title":{"rendered":"SEPA seals five factories for causing pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) on Thursday sealed five factories in the city\u2019s Korangi Industrial Area for not complying with the Sindh Environmental Protection Act 2014, with cases against another two factories having been forwarded to the relevant court for action \u2013 a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sepa-resolves-over-200-environmental-violation-complaints.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SEPA resolves over 200 environmental violation complaints (opens in a new tab)\">SEPA resolves over 200 environmental violation complaints<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to SEPA officials, the action was taken on the directives\nof Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh for Law, Environment, Climate Change and\nCoastal Development Barrister Murtuza Wahab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of the factories were sealed for generating excessive\nwastewater, one for generating air emissions, and another for using a smoky\ngenerator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cases for two of the factories were forwarded to the judicial magistrate for open burning of solid waste under Section 14 of the Sindh Environment Protection Act 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/notices-served-to-builders-violating-sepa-sops-in-karachi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Notices served to builders violating SEPA SOPs in Karachi (opens in a new tab)\">Notices served to builders violating SEPA SOPs in Karachi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrister Wahab stated that indiscriminate action would continue\nagainst polluting factories. He also urged the industries and developmental\ninstitutions to comply with the Sindh Environmental Protection Act 2014 so that\nthe wheel of progress and development may continue to move forward without\nharming our natural environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) on Thursday sealed five factories in the city\u2019s Korangi Industrial Area for not complying with the Sindh Environmental Protection Act 2014, with cases against another two factories having been forwarded to the relevant court for action \u2013 a news source reported. Read: SEPA resolves over 200 environmental violation complaints According to SEPA officials, the action was taken on the directives of Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh for Law, Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development Barrister Murtuza Wahab. Three of the factories were sealed for generating excessive wastewater, one for generating air emissions, and another for using a smoky generator. Cases for two of the factories were forwarded to the judicial magistrate for open burning of solid waste under Section 14 of the Sindh Environment Protection Act 2014. Read: Notices served to builders violating SEPA SOPs in Karachi Barrister Wahab stated that indiscriminate action would continue against polluting factories. He also urged the industries and developmental institutions to comply with the Sindh Environmental Protection Act 2014 so that the wheel of progress and development may continue to move forward without harming our natural environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":60873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[17541],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-sepa-seals-five-factories-for-causing-pollution","9":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SEPA seals five factories for causing pollution - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) on Thursday sealed five factories in the city\u2019s Korangi Industrial Area for not complying with\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sepa-seals-five-factories-causing-pollution.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SEPA seals five factories for causing pollution - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) on Thursday sealed five factories in the city\u2019s Korangi Industrial Area for not complying with\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sepa-seals-five-factories-causing-pollution.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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