Vietnam to place 28 industrial facilities under special environmental control

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) in Vietnam is planning to place 28 industrial production facilities across a range of sectors under special environmental control, reports Vietnam Net.

MONRE has highlighted the cement industry as being one of the industrial production sectors at a high-risk level. The special control project will assess the efforts of facilities to reduce the risk of pollution and to enable fast solutions if any immediate problems are recognised.

The Formosa steel plant was the first to be placed under special control in May 2017, and MONRE will begin to add other facilities which are highly likely to cause pollution to the list within 2018.