The Taiyuan Municipal Procuratorate's first public interest lawsuit in support of the prosecution of environmental damage compensation was pronounced Tongzhou Energy Company was sentenced to more than 61.72 million yuan in damages

Yellow River News Network News (reporter Zhang Wenjuan) In order to achieve the purpose of increasing the amount of garbage burned, increasing the amount of power generation, and improving the efficiency of the company, an energy company in Taiyuan went so far as to tamper with the range data of the flue gas monitoring system and illegally discharge pollutants. On January 4, the Taiyuan Municipal People's Procuratorate released information to the public, and with the support of the court, the first civil public interest lawsuit for environmental damage compensation in the provincial city has a judgment result. The Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court fully supported the procuratorate's litigation request, ordering the defendant to apologize and compensate for environmental damages of more than 61.72 million yuan.

From 2016 to 2019, taiyuan Tongzhou Energy Co., Ltd. in order to increase the amount of garbage burned, increase power generation, improve the company's efficiency, privately tampered with the range data of the flue gas monitoring system, resulting in the flue gas monitoring system can not normally reflect the actual pollutants and other emission values, illegally discharged pollutants, causing environmental damage. After the case occurred, the Taiyuan Municipal People's Procuratorate took the initiative to investigate the case with a civil public interest lawsuit after discovering clues through the investigation of the criminal case, and the chief procurator Ning Jianxin served as the leader of the case handling team to handle the case. During this period, the procuratorial organ consulted with the infringer in advance and took the initiative to report the relevant situation to the local party committee and government. On August 31, 2020, after the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and nine other departments issued the Opinions on Several Specific Issues Concerning the Reform of the Compensation System for Ecological and Environmental Damage, the municipal government became the right holder of compensation in this case, and the Taiyuan Municipal People's Procuratorate immediately actively urged the compensation right holder to file an ecological and environmental compensation lawsuit as the subject of the lawsuit. After the municipal government designated the Municipal Bureau of Eco-Environment and Resources to file a compensation lawsuit, the procuratorial organ participated in the lawsuit to support the compensation of the right holder for ecological and environmental damage in the form of supporting the lawsuit. In the end, after trial, the Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court ordered Tongzhou Energy Co., Ltd. to apologize, compensate for environmental damages of more than 61.72 million yuan, and bear all appraisal fees, litigation costs, and lawyer fees.