{"id":89739,"date":"2022-11-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=89739"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:57:13","slug":"smog-control-crackdown-industrial-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/smog-control-crackdown-industrial-units.html","title":{"rendered":"Smog Control: Crackdown launched on industrial units, businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The city administration has launched a crackdown on the industrial units and other businesses to control smog, a news source reported on October 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-preemptive-measures-curtail-smog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CM Punjab directs preemptive measures to curtail smog in Lahore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the details, the administration has started this operation against the industrial units and other businesses that cause environmental pollution. During this operation, the administration started checking the factories that were given fitness certificates earlier by the environment department. The news source mentioned that a policy of zero-tolerance on the premises or factories causing smog has been drafted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A city administration spokesperson (whose name was not disclosed) stated that the administration has been taking various steps including sealing factories or units that have no scrubber machines and taking actions against those burning stubble in the agriculture fields or open spaces to improve the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/new-formula-aqi-lahore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Air Quality Index <\/a>(AQI) of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-special-anti-smog-squad-pollution.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab inaugurates special anti-smog squad to check pollution<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to IQAir \u2013 a Swiss-based air quality technology company \u2013 the situation in Lahore has been worst in terms of AQI. The spokesperson revealed that during the operation, 170 industrial units, located in the areas of Mahmood Booti and Bheeni villages have been sealed. He went on to say that most factories that manufacture rubber, tyres, carbon, and steel release toxic emissions that are dangerous for health and increase smog; that is why the government is focusing on such units to curb the deteriorating air quality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The city administration has launched a crackdown on the industrial units and other businesses to control smog, a news source reported on October 30.\u00a0 Read: CM Punjab directs preemptive measures to curtail smog in Lahore As per the details, the administration has started this operation against the industrial units and other businesses that cause environmental pollution. During this operation, the administration started checking the factories that were given fitness certificates earlier by the environment department. The news source mentioned that a policy of zero-tolerance on the premises or factories causing smog has been drafted.&nbsp; A city administration spokesperson (whose name was not disclosed) stated that the administration has been taking various steps including sealing factories or units that have no scrubber machines and taking actions against those burning stubble in the agriculture fields or open spaces to improve the Air Quality Index (AQI) of the city. Read: \u00a0Punjab inaugurates special anti-smog squad to check pollution According to IQAir \u2013 a Swiss-based air quality technology company \u2013 the situation in Lahore has been worst in terms of AQI. The spokesperson revealed that during the operation, 170 industrial units, located in the areas of Mahmood Booti and Bheeni villages have been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":70824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[41999,54745],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-air-quality-index-of-lahore","9":"tag-smog-control-crackdown-launched-on-industrial-units-businesses","10":"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>Smog Control: Crackdown launched on industrial units- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The city administration has launched a crackdown on the industrial units and other businesses to control smog......\" \/>\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\/smog-control-crackdown-industrial-units.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smog Control: Crackdown launched on industrial units- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The city administration has launched a crackdown on the industrial units and other businesses to control smog......\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/smog-control-crackdown-industrial-units.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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