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In Depth: Tackling China’s Heavy-Handed Environmental Pollution Penalties

By Wang Shuo and Lu Zhenhua
2025年07月11日 18:29
As Beijing drafts a sweeping environmental code, local enforcers and scholars push for top-level changes to address a system that often levies crippling penalties for minor mistakes
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Following its landmark Civil Code, China is crafting its second legal codex, the Ecological Environment Code. However, the effort to codify its environmental regulations into a single legal framework is stirring up a thorny debate among grassroots enforcers and legal scholars.

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