China punishes officials over sewage in first environmental case of its kind

Landmark victory in ‘war on pollution’ as court rules that local government agency allowed company to produce dye without proper safeguardsChinese prosecutors have successfully sued a county environmental agency for inadequately punishing a sewage firm that produced dye without appropriate safeguards – the first such public interest case against a government department. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate, China’s top prosecutor, said prosecutors had successfully pro