Staff Reporter
Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) was standing lull after it had issued notices to 26 housing societies of the federal capital for violating the conditions contained in their environmental approvals.
The environmental approvals given by the agency had certain conditions which include proper disposal of solid waste, liquid waste, chemical waste, hazardous materials, construction of sewage treatment plants, rainwater harvesting, ground water recharging etc, and submission of quarterly or monthly progress reports of the projects.
EPA has noticed that the proponents of these projects and developers are neither attending the conditions contained in their environmental approval nor are they submitting compliance and progress reports to us.
All this is causing serious environmental problems like air pollution, polluted water bodies, different diseases, solid and liquid waste issues and cutting of trees in the capital city.
Pak-EPA was working under the administrative control of the Ministry of Climate Change was responsible for the implementation of the Pakistan Environmental Act, 1997, as well as the rules and regulations made under it.
